Hello,
I am new at this CPU building thing and not off to a great start. I have a Gigabyte GA-K8VM800M Motherboard I got from a friend, who told me that it worked and passes POST and all of that. I have installed it in my case in a way that I believe to be correct, but when I fire it up I get one long repeating beep, and it will not load up at all- DRAM error says the motherboard log. I'm fairly certain that I have good RAM inserted correctly, and I have experimented with different sticks in different slots, one at a time, in many different combinations. However, the one long beep is persistent and the computer will not load, nothing appears on the screen at all.
So, I understand why you would want to flash the BIOS and the idea of how to do it- I have my .f8 file on the floppy disk, in the floppy drive. But how the heck am I supposed to get to the BIOS screen to use it if I can't get past this infernal DRAM error beeping??
Thanks for any help. As you can probably tell I'm about ready to jump out a window.
I am new at this CPU building thing and not off to a great start. I have a Gigabyte GA-K8VM800M Motherboard I got from a friend, who told me that it worked and passes POST and all of that. I have installed it in my case in a way that I believe to be correct, but when I fire it up I get one long repeating beep, and it will not load up at all- DRAM error says the motherboard log. I'm fairly certain that I have good RAM inserted correctly, and I have experimented with different sticks in different slots, one at a time, in many different combinations. However, the one long beep is persistent and the computer will not load, nothing appears on the screen at all.
So, I understand why you would want to flash the BIOS and the idea of how to do it- I have my .f8 file on the floppy disk, in the floppy drive. But how the heck am I supposed to get to the BIOS screen to use it if I can't get past this infernal DRAM error beeping??
Thanks for any help. As you can probably tell I'm about ready to jump out a window.