Gigabyte POST Beep code help (Virus)

My friend's computer contracted a virus; a nasty one at that. It fried his MBR. I went to reinstall windows and I needed to install the RAID drivers.

I had to install a floppy because he didn't have one in at the time. I installed the floppy and restarted the computer to a stream of continuous short beeps.

Experience tells me that continuous short beeps generally means a memory error, so I removed the floppy, each mem stick individually, then both sticks, and still I got the error. I unhooked video, hard drives, and basically everything but power and CPU, and I still get the beeps. I reset the CMOS/BIOS, and still nothing.

I don't have the mobo model off-hand, but it's a gigabyte with the dual BIOS and dual PSU, socket 478.


Any ideas? I'm fresh out.

His computer was fine until I hooked in the floppy, and I made sure to align Pin #1.

Nothing???

Anybody?

Apparently the MB doesn't like floppys.

The 8kNXP has dual-bios and the clear CMOS solder pads (no jumper; no pins) have to be shorted with a wire.

Once I cleared the BIOS that way, everything worked fine, until I plugged the floppy in. Maybe a bad wire/controller.

I slipstreamed the RAID drivers on to a CD.

Thanks anyway.