CUSL2 Sick Beep

[Frank Haber]

At this late date I'm seeing my first CUSL2, 800 PIII. It seems fairly
stable, except it's a bit flaky at PCI enumeration, and the inititial boot
beep has a little trailing "peep" on it. It's definitely not a dash-dot error
code; it's much too short for that, almost as though the beeper had a catch in
its throat.

BIOS 1009 - Timings at stock. I've tried with two 256 sticks, and two power
supplies. Same beep.

Also, 32MB seems the max HD size. It wouldn't LBA an 80. Normal?

 

[foo]

My CUSL2 has the same odd beep as you describe, but other than that it
works fine.

The HD detection issue I can't help with, sorry, never had any problems
with mine in that respect.

 

[GMAN]

At this late date I'm seeing my first CUSL2, 800 PIII. It seems fairly
stable, except it's a bit flaky at PCI enumeration, and the inititial boot
beep has a little trailing "peep" on it. It's definitely not a dash-dot error
code; it's much too short for that, almost as though the beeper had a catch in
its throat.

BIOS 1009 - Timings at stock. I've tried with two 256 sticks, and two power
supplies. Same beep.

Also, 32MB seems the max HD size. It wouldn't LBA an 80. Normal?

No n,ot normal. I used a 60 gig out of box with that board for years

 

[Stephan Grossklass]

At this late date I'm seeing my first CUSL2, 800 PIII. It seems fairly
stable, except it's a bit flaky at PCI enumeration, and the inititial boot
beep has a little trailing "peep" on it. It's definitely not a dash-dot error
code; it's much too short for that, almost as though the beeper had a catch in
its throat.

BIOS 1009 - Timings at stock. I've tried with two 256 sticks, and two power
supplies. Same beep.

Also, 32MB seems the max HD size. It wouldn't LBA an 80. Normal?

Not normal, since 1009 should be from 2001 and thus support any IDE hard
drive up to 128 GiB. The last BIOS (1014 beta 1) also features 48 bit
LBA, I think.

Stephan

 

[Paul]

Not normal, since 1009 should be from 2001 and thus support any IDE hard
drive up to 128 GiB. The last BIOS (1014 beta 1) also features 48 bit
LBA, I think.

Stephan

Would it be the limit or clipping jumper option ? Maybe the
jumper you've installed is causing the disk to declare it
is only 32GB in size. The jumper is available on disk drives,
to get past the BIOS on older motherboards that don't work
properly if the disk is larger than 32GB.

Note that, for some disk drives, the jumper options are
actually more complicated that the slip of paper in the
retail box documents. Sometimes, you have to find the
OEM disk specification for the drive, in order to get
a complete table of all possible jumper settings. It
could be, if you "parked" a jumper on the pins, it is
causing the limit.

HTH,
Paul

 

[Frank Haber]

Well, *that* particular 80GB Maxtor is now gone, so I can't retest. I had
tried both master and cable-select. with the same result: drive recognized at
107xx ?decimal, I guess GB. Good old Win98SE Setup (don't ask) hung with a
truncated "needs 760,000 byt... (to install....mmmmrpf) errmsg. We'll never
know, sice a 40 initialized fine. The CUSL is now running with a 27 and a 20
from the closet. I'm happy.


How's the ATI slot? Will it run a Radeon All-in-Wonder 8500, I wonder(g)?
Does the onboard 815 non-Extreme chip auto-disable? I note only a "first
boot" video setting in the BIOS? I've never seen an 815 that will
dual-monitor on the onboard graphics, but I thought I'd ask.


Thanks, everyone.

-Frank