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a friend gave me a hp pavilion 6330 and when you hook it up it makes a sound of repeated thumps from the spks. then lights start flashing on keyboard , and front of computer.
the comp has win 98, 64 mb ram ,4gb. hdd.
i have looked at HP,S web site and can't find a manual on the mobo.
please help.
 
According to " upgrading your HP Pavilion pc" by tom sheldon. the 6330 came with the Puma 1 mobo,
built 98-99 it is a socket A AMD CPU,
K6-2 300 to 400 Mhz
socket 7 66Mhz
max memory 2x128 DIMM's for a total of 256.

Pull everything off of mobo except sound, and fire it up, should give beeps
attach memory, then monitor.

HP has the error beep codes and error messages discriptions available at their web site

Hope that helps
 
Originally posted by racercarl
According to " upgrading your HP Pavilion pc" by tom sheldon. the 6330 came with the Puma 1 mobo,
built 98-99 it is a socket A AMD CPU,
K6-2 300 to 400 Mhz
socket 7 66Mhz
max memory 2x128 DIMM's for a total of 256.

Pull everything off of mobo except sound, and fire it up, should give beeps
attach memory, then monitor.

HP has the error beep codes and error messages discriptions available at their web site

Hope that helps
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Well about half of that made since...

Socket A is for AMD Athlon CPUs
Super Socket 7 is for AMD K6-2 CPUs
AMD K6-2 CPUs run at 95 or 100MHz bus speed

Your RAM spec seems a bit low for the max size at that time. Hell I have an eMachine that origionally had a 366MHz cyrix that has 256 x 2 in it.


Pull everything apart, and I mean everything. Take the PSU, motherboard, HDD, EVERYTHING out of the case. Personally I would wash it all down since the case is empty but thats just me. :p

After dusting out the PSU start to rebuild everything, making sure nothing is out of place and the motherboard is not touching anything it should not. Some time in this you need to remove the battery for a hour to clear the BIOS as I don't think there is a clear CMOS jumper on the board. With no HDD or floppy attached go ahead and turn it on.
 
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