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Thread ID: 17734	2002-04-10 10:50:00	Bad board or not enough ram???	Guest (0)	Press F1

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43110	2002-04-10 10:50:00	Have purchased a m766lmrt m/b from an online auction and suspect it may have a fault. It keeps stopping at the post. It lists the cpu ok ( a pII 350mghz mmx) but reads: sdram at row(s) : 0 (cl = 3) Searching for boot record from floppy?. Not found Searching for boot record from IDE- 0 ..OK Invalid system disk Replace the disk and then press any key There is no disk in the floppy drive and if I press any key it presents this message: Searching for boot record from IDE- 1.._ At this point it just hangs and doesn?t do anything else and not even Ctrl-Alt-Del does anything. Also when I go into the bios to check the settings it locks up. I was wondering whether it had anything to do with the ram as I only have one stick of pc100 which is only 16mgs and I?m not sure if it is enough. I?ve tried several different hdd?s all of which I know to be good and none of them will boot. Can anyone shed any light on this please. Have I brought a dud??	Guest (0)
43111	2002-04-10 11:02:00	Could it be bad ram? by the sounds of it it's quite old so chances are it may of been damaged or something.	Guest (0)
43112	2002-04-10 11:15:00	Hi Iva What post beeps are you getting, if any? Murray P	Guest (0)
43113	2002-04-10 11:27:00	No post beeps......by the way one of the hdd's almost booted is said: starting ms-dos_ But just hung there and i had too reset.	Guest (0)
43114	2002-04-10 19:49:00	It doesn't sound like there is anything wrong at all to me. If you are using HDD's out of other computers, then you are just dreaming if you think they will bootup, when they are put into a completely different computer. You might get lucky. You need to put a startup disk in the floppy and boot up, then see if it can read C drive. If it can't then you probably need to alter the bios to recognize your HDD.	Guest (0)
43115	2002-04-11 09:49:00	Hi But no post beeps KO. Wouldn't that suggest ram, motherboard, cmos or psu? depending on the motherboard and bios brands. Then again, just re-read the post. Its trying to find a system disk or HDD. Well worth a try. Cheers Murray P	Guest (0)
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