Re: [OT] - pc dead

["Rob Iles" <rob.iles@xxxxxxxxx>]

Laurence mentioned having recently worked on the PC (adding RAM), and
having
a screw loose (no jokes, please).

If bios is now posting a graphics card error, this would suggest to me that
the rogue screw may have made contact with graphics card or (worse) the
back
end of the AGP slot - - meaning graphics card / mobo is toast :-(

certainly worth trying another graphics card if you have one to hand - but
don't plug an expensive one in, just in case!

I'm assuming PSU is in reasonable condition as PC is getting as far as
POST.

Regards,

Rob



On 12/12/2007, John Murray <John@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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>   Google tells me that 8 beeps on the AMI bios usually means a
graphics
> card error, so have you got a spare AGP vga card, or a PCI one you can
use
> instead?
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