December 27, 2003
The Black Dragon is dead again
We looked into why the Black Dragon wasn't starting. After a lot of toying around, we again believe the motherboard has died. It is my guess the first RAM socket, or the electronics next to it are bad. The only thing the system does on boot up is give a very fast series of beeps. With everything else removed, this symptoms continues. If we remove the RAM completely, the beeps are different. But so far, that seems to be the only thing that makes a difference. Things don't look good for the Black Dragon.