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Little help with an old, dead PC...

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DellAxim

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Trying to setup an old computer I have for an audio server. It is an Acer with an Athlon 64 dual core. It worked great about 6 months ago when I last used it. Tried to hook it up today, and the screen stays blank, and it beeps at me.

I tried unhooking all unnecessary components. I tried reseating the CPU. It has multiple RAM sticks, I tried them one at a time, in different slots, still nothing. BEEP.......BEEP.....BEEP....

Anything else to try before I toss it? Is it giving me some kind of code or just making random noise? It has no value but it's going to be a PITA for me to build another old computer to replace it...
 
You need to figure out what vendor Acer used and use Google to find a table to decipher beep codes.
Given that it's a A64 I'd guess that it has bad caps or whatever. You can most likely replace with a Odroid-C1 board, Wandboard, Hummingboard or a Cubox.

http://ameridroid.com/t/single-board-computers
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815580008&cm_re=cubox-_-15-580-008-_-Product
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813455002&cm_re=cubox-_-13-455-002-_-Product
http://www.wandboard.org
//Danne
 
If you have another video card laying around you could give that a try too.
 
I bet the caps probably went bad. It spent the winter in an unheated space.

diizzy said:
You can most likely replace with a Odroid-C1 board, Wandboard, Hummingboard or a Cubox.

http://ameridroid.com/t/single-board-computers
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815580008&cm_re=cubox-_-15-580-008-_-Product
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813455002&cm_re=cubox-_-13-455-002-_-Product
http://www.wandboard.org
//Danne
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The catch is I've also got 3 old LCD monitors hooked up to it. I wanted to use it to view some security cameras also.

I suppose I could use USB > VGA adapters for that. Does anyone have a sub $75 board like that capable of running windows?
 
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