nothing.
shit.
no beep codes? no pc speaker.
so, i had to build a new pc speaker out of electrical tape and a piece of cardboard (i exaggerate only slightly.) to get the beep codes to figure out why it wasn't booting. and, it was ram.
so, i stripped the thing right down and did a component-by-component test to realize that....everything works after all.
hrmmn.
so, did it just need a reseating? that's maybe an oversimplification. reseating it on it's own didn't help. rather, it seemed like once i triggered the circuit with a 65 mb chip that the 256 mb chips started flowing, too - meaning it's more like i had to warm it up than that i had to reseat it.
the machine is currently sitting at the bios screen with just a video card and hard drive, in addition to the maxxed out 1 gb of ram. so, it works. hooray.
and, it's quiet - which i don't even understand. it should be as loud as it ever was. but, i'll take it.
i need to check kijiji for 256 mb pc100 sd ram. that's the most the device can take, and a little back up will definitely help.
it's otherwise nice to get things back and running again, even if everything around me remains in disarray.
