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Old 1st April, 2008, 09:54 PM
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Ok, the FF code is actually a reset code. It is what the machine sets the LED code to when it performs a reset or first starts up. It is only relevant if you never get the machine to change the status of that display. Since that is not the case here, it is irrelevant.

The beep tells me that at the very least, the CPU is coming up and executing the BIOS POST code, so we know that at least SOME of the mobo is actually working.

C1 tells us that it's not able to properly access the RAM, but I suspect that it's more a symptom than the actual problem, given the troubleshooting steps you've described above, and what I have seen other people report with Epox boards in the past.

It's probable that the 'reserved' (I love those ) 44 POST code is telling you that it wasn't able to initialize some chipset register properly.

Basically, it sounds to me like your mobo is toast.

One thing you might do is look around on the mobo for any bulging capacitors that have brown stuff oozing out of them. If you do, then you might be able to resurrect the board with a cap change.
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