It's wierd to think about a Gigabyte 700Mhz AMD board being a classic,but
you can't even buy processors under 1Ghz new from the shops here!

Oh well ..

I was given a Gigabyte MB with a 700Mhz AMD processor in it and 256MB of
memory for it.  The party who gave it to me noted he'd had a strange noise
from it once in a great while.

Well, once in a great while is now sorta *LOTS* more often, all the time now! 
 I have the board in a used only for mirror image backup box for my main
OS/2 development system.  It only gets booted to cross match directories,
files and software updates and so on,

Which ..

       now produces and ENDLESS madness of high and low tone beeps
       from the speaker!

This box has a PCI video card, PCI Adaptec 2940UW SCSI card, PCI Kingston
NIC card, is completely SCSI hard disk but also has an IDE CD-ROM drive,
and the usual 3-1/2" floppy.  The AMX box has a brand new power supply
.. and works flawlessly on a similar CFI MB with a 500Mhz Intel CPU. The
Gigabyte main board has no on-board video, SCSI interface, nor NIC; neither
does the DFI board.  I've tried swapping memory sticks between them and
different ones totally.  Booting to a DOS floppy with MEMTEST86 whatever
runs endlessly on either with no errors reported at all on either!

When you first fire it up it is silent until about half way through the
OS/2 boot routine.  Either from the HD, or from the utility OS/2 boot
diskettes.  At some VARIABLE point in the boot routine through the OS/2
CONFIG.SYS file you'll here the speaker go BEEP!  It's the same sort of
tone you hear as from BIOS errors from MB's.  But there is no reasoning to
the tone(s).  The next one is a high frequency tone.  And from that point
on it first just a few, then for a while more and more alterating high and
low tones.

Left for a LONG time, eventually the box settles down, when doing nothing,
to quietness.  But the instant hard disk I/O begins, here we go again in
beep-beep.  And on shutdown, when you get back to the final blue screen in
OS/2 for the prompt for  to restart the box, it sits
there enlessly going beep-beep.

I've tried every single BIOS setting change I can relate to in effort to
stop this crazy madness.  There is NOTHING that ever goes wrong with what
is being done on the box that I can see.

The only thing that looks curious to me is that when you do a boot run the
screen role for the harware check, things in use, and IRQ roster and so on
lists IRQ 15 as being for the video card.  But I've deliberately made sure
and IRQ 15 is *NOT* in use for anything else.  And I can guarantee that
there are NO IRQ conflicts in any way, including anything in PCI slots that
are contaminated.

Has anyone any ideas on what might be the cause of this?  I've flashed this
board with the latest BIOS as well.  Made no difference at all, and neither
does change in memory or whatever.

Thanks!


--> Sleep well; OS/2's still awake! ;)

Mike {at} 1:117/3001

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