My win2k adv server amd k6-2 450 computer dumped physical memory. I turned off my computer and when I restarted my computer made the infinite beep of death. I think my memory went bad and killed my processor. I have a friend who had something similar problem but his was under warranty. My memory stick is a little old. I hope I’m wrong. Or maybe I had 2 unrelated problems at the same time. Any thoughts?

Clear your CMOS/BIOS settings. Start back up, see what happens . . .
Your mobo manual shows how to do that.

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i reset the cmos jumper. it worked about 6 months ago when i screwed up the bios but it didn't work this time.

If you can't even get a bios to post on the screen anymore, then your mobo has probably had it. However, since you said that you had a bios problem awhile back, perhaps it's just the bios itself that's bad?

In that case, go to:
www.badflash.com/ and they should be able to help you out. I just used their service myself recently, and it worked like a charm.

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Actually, it could be the memory too - although if memory goes bad, you should at least get some error beeps every time that you try to power up . . .

I always use memory in identical pairs for that reason. It may cost a few dollars more, but that way if a mamory module goes bad, you still have another one to rely on, until you can get a replacement. ESPECIALLY on any server machine . . .

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update....

i have a amd k6 processor and motherboard lying around and last time i checked that still worked. i looked at the bios chips and they are the same chip. well it's still broke. but now when i turn on power with just the board and processor i get no beep. just the fan spinning.

I still say that it is the mobo or the mobo flash bios file . . .

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i think my board is done. good think it was my back up computer.

thanks a lot for the input.

I killed a Pentium 1 board once self learning the debug command in dos. I don't know what I was doing let alone what i did but I just pressed enter and it was lights out. Turned out my BIOS was dead and yours too by the sounds of things.

I managed to recover the board however after downloading a file from the manufacturers site. The file created a bootable floppy with a bios image which automatically flashes - simple as that.