Bad crash

[David Kramer]

On Monday 02 December 2002 11:17 pm, John Abreau wrote:
> Yes, the extended beep meant either the memory wasn't seated properly
> or the power supply was bad. The code for a bad CPU fan would have been
> four short beeps.
>
> Phil Molloy looked at it, and he's convinced that the motherboard is fried.
> He didn't have a spare CPU fan on hand, though. If you have one that will
> fit my CPU, it wouldn't hurt to give it a try. It's a Socket-A Athlon
> T-bird 1.2GHz.

Nope, sorry.  It's unlikely that just the fan would prevent the system from 
booting.  Unless the fan failure has already caused the CPU to fry.


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