Any luck with free SuperMicro boards, me == beep codes

hewitt_tech hewitt_tech at comcast.net
Fri Feb 23 20:37:23 EST 2007


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shawn K. O'Shea" <shawn at eth0.net>
To: "GNHLUG" <gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 1:48 PM
Subject: Any luck with free SuperMicro boards, me == beep codes


> Anyone have any luck with their SuperMicro boards? I finally got
> around to trying to bring mine up this past weekend without success. I
> had a spare P3-733 floating around and a 1U case with an old Intel
> (Celeron only) desktop board.
>
> I swapped the Intel board for the SuperMicro, swapped the PC100 RAM
> from the Intel board to the SM board, installed the 733 P3, powered on
> and got a beep code, 2 short followed by 1 long.
>

I think the 733 P3 is part of your problem. I looked up the specs for the 
board and the maximum speed P3 that it supports is 500 mhz. Apparently the 
"coppermine" P3 which is faster and probably what you used will fit in the 
socket but is not compatible with that board.

-Alex



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