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Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Amazingly the computer came with the motherboard manual. I think something was wrong or a component was incompatible with the old one, and they had this one available.

Someone else suggested buying a speaker to hook up so I can hear the beeps. Do the lights provide the same info as the beeps?

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Muehe@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Do the lights provide the same info as the beeps?

Yes, but whether you have lights or just beeps depends on your board. I think yours does not have the lights, just the speaker pins.

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vivavideri@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I poked around at your manual lol. Image

Image #11. System panel. One left of it is for the wee speaker. Also check that your chassis is wired up to this correctly, or, better yet, you can be a madlad and unplug it all and see what works. The caveat to that is… you have to know what order to do that in. Generally, your power supply has wires that go to all sorts of stuff, make dang sure you don’t power your cpu for very long without the fan/cooler. Once you know the cpu power and fan is working, keep plugging more stuff in til you find the problem. I’d also mention if anyone hasn’t, be mindful of static.

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vivavideri@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Yeah. There should be a page in the manual with a diagram of your board and it’ll tell you where.

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