Solve : Stuck at POST?

1.	Solve : Stuck at POST?
Answer» I have a PC that wont get past POST. Turn on, beeps once, all three lights on keyboard flash once 1 Sec later the keyboard will no longer work If i push 'Delete' fast enough i SEE the following (cant reliably get into BIOS either, did Delete->F8 fast enough once but cant since) ----------------------------------- American Megatrends (logo) ENTERING setup... Press F8 for BBS Popup PC-3800 duel CHANNEL asymmetric Checking NV RAM.. Initializing USB Controllers .. ---------------------------------- Just sits at that screen forever. I tried unplug the HDD and the CD ROM but no diff. I will try cycling out the RAM tomorrow and update but i have a feeling it wont be the problem. Any advice?Could you give us some more details. The specs would be nice. Have the PC ever worked? If yes, did anything happen around the time it stopped working? Quote from: badomen6969 on July 05, 2009, 04:52:40 AM Turn on, beeps once, all three lights on keyboard flash once Follow the evidence; don't speculate. The beep code for AMI report DRAM refresh failure. Those Beep codes are SOMEWHERE on this server. Try booting with each DRAM removed one at a time. If it does not even work with any one DRAM, then then motherboard circuits that talk to the DRAM may be defective or power supply voltages are out of SPEC. Normal is for a computer to operate (as yours has) and have completely defective voltages. Three suspects defined.

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I have a PC that wont get past POST.

Turn on, beeps once, all three lights on keyboard flash once
1 Sec later the keyboard will no longer work
If i push 'Delete' fast enough i SEE the following (cant reliably get into BIOS either, did Delete->F8 fast enough once but cant since)

-----------------------------------
American Megatrends (logo)

ENTERING setup...
Press F8 for BBS Popup
PC-3800 duel CHANNEL asymmetric
Checking NV RAM..
Initializing USB Controllers ..
----------------------------------

Just sits at that screen forever. I tried unplug the HDD and the CD ROM but no diff. I will try cycling out the RAM tomorrow and update but i have a feeling it wont be the problem. Any advice?Could you give us some more details.
The specs would be nice.
Have the PC ever worked? If yes, did anything happen around the time it stopped working?

Quote from: badomen6969 on July 05, 2009, 04:52:40 AM

Turn on, beeps once, all three lights on keyboard flash once

Follow the evidence; don't speculate. The beep code for AMI report DRAM refresh failure. Those Beep codes are SOMEWHERE on this server.

Try booting with each DRAM removed one at a time. If it does not even work with any one DRAM, then then motherboard circuits that talk to the DRAM may be defective or power supply voltages are out of SPEC. Normal is for a computer to operate (as yours has) and have completely defective voltages. Three suspects defined.

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