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I tried pulling the modem last night and restarting, with no apparent effect http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

It seems I have inherited your luck with computers Atrocities!

Re: OT: Massive computer problem, help appreciated
 

I think you can say you've inherited AT's bad luck when your hard drive implodes, your screen becomes a gateway to Hell, your motherboard melts and your mouse commits suicide, at the same time.

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You forget about the water leak, the rats, and of course the power surge incidents. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

Ren you will figure it out. It has to be something simple. I would just pull everything except the video card and see what happens. Add one part back at a time. Take your ram in and have it tested. Good luck. If it matters to you, you don't have my bad luck, to get that you would really need to p*** God off.

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Well, previous to this current issue, my hard drive has thrown in the towel and my motherboard has fried itself, but I agree, I haven't reached AT's level yet! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

Good news! The problem has been identified and resolved.

I brought it into Future Shop, and they fixed it for me, since I couldn't solve it. Turns out the video card was fried, even though I was sure it wasn't. When the card fried itself, it also shorted out the motherboard, with the result of screwing up most of the drivers (or so thye said). So I ended up dropping some cash on a new, shiny video card, and fixed the drivers, so everything appears to be fixed, for now http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

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Hot damn, isn't it such a great feeling when you fix those problems? er.. correction.. when it *looks like* you've fixed them http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Correct me if I'm wrong, doesn't the error code beep's significance depend on what BIOS version you're running?