Just need some help with what to try here.
This is the system currently (stripped down for error hunt):
Motherboard: Tyan Thunder K8W S2885 ANRF
CPU: AMD Opteron 242 with Zalman S7000B-AlCu
Memory: Corsair Twin1024RE-2300LL (PDF)
GFX: VisionTek GeForce3 Ti500
PS: Tagan TG480-U01
Those are the only things installed at the moment.
The error is pretty simple, the computer seems to boot up ok (fans start spinning, etc), and I do get a quick double-muted-beep that sounds just like the one before it should try to boot up from a device after the BIOS
The problem is that I get no display.
The screen and the graphics cards do work, I tested on another computer before and after I got this problem (with two monitors and another graphics card - GeForce2 MX400).
Just to make sure it wasn't an "error beep" I removed the memory, and indeed got 15 quick beeps (Tyan's way of saying that the memory isn't working), and those beeps started about 5 seconds before the double-beep mentioned above, which is why I think that beep is not an error code, since the error code beeps started about 0.5 seconds after turning it on (when the memory was removed).
No floppy, no PCI-cards, no IDE/SATA drives connected.
First I thought that the graphics card might be too old, but looking at Tyan's Video Compability List it's listed there, as well as the card running in 4x AGP, which the board is supposed to handle.
Any recommendations on what I can try?
This is the system currently (stripped down for error hunt):
Motherboard: Tyan Thunder K8W S2885 ANRF
CPU: AMD Opteron 242 with Zalman S7000B-AlCu
Memory: Corsair Twin1024RE-2300LL (PDF)
GFX: VisionTek GeForce3 Ti500
PS: Tagan TG480-U01
Those are the only things installed at the moment.
The error is pretty simple, the computer seems to boot up ok (fans start spinning, etc), and I do get a quick double-muted-beep that sounds just like the one before it should try to boot up from a device after the BIOS
The problem is that I get no display.
The screen and the graphics cards do work, I tested on another computer before and after I got this problem (with two monitors and another graphics card - GeForce2 MX400).
Just to make sure it wasn't an "error beep" I removed the memory, and indeed got 15 quick beeps (Tyan's way of saying that the memory isn't working), and those beeps started about 5 seconds before the double-beep mentioned above, which is why I think that beep is not an error code, since the error code beeps started about 0.5 seconds after turning it on (when the memory was removed).
No floppy, no PCI-cards, no IDE/SATA drives connected.
First I thought that the graphics card might be too old, but looking at Tyan's Video Compability List it's listed there, as well as the card running in 4x AGP, which the board is supposed to handle.
Any recommendations on what I can try?