HP Kayak XU and XAs

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Shadow

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Greetings all,

Recently I acquired 2 rather overbuilt computers, an HP kayak XU and a kayak Xas. I can't find any specs online for these computers. The Xas runs fine but the XU does not boot. Doesn't pass POST. I get a beep error of "beep 'pause' beep beep beep" all the same length. Any ideas? Also, these are both dual processor mobos, but they only have one (at this time). Next to each processor slot is a jack for "something'. I'm not new at hardware but I've never seen anything like this. (I'm taking A+ cert classes right now, and my instructor can't tell me what they are). Can anybody tell me what they are?

The one that works is a PII 350 and the one that does not is a PII 300. I would like to get them both running with dual 450's and max RAM. Any info on these computers would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

Shadow
 
Shadow said:
Greetings all,

Recently I acquired 2 rather overbuilt computers, an HP kayak XU and a kayak Xas. I can't find any specs online for these computers. The Xas runs fine but the XU does not boot. Doesn't pass POST. I get a beep error of "beep 'pause' beep beep beep" all the same length. Any ideas? Also, these are both dual processor mobos, but they only have one (at this time). Next to each processor slot is a jack for "something'. I'm not new at hardware but I've never seen anything like this. (I'm taking A+ cert classes right now, and my instructor can't tell me what they are). Can anybody tell me what they are?

The one that works is a PII 350 and the one that does not is a PII 300. I would like to get them both running with dual 450's and max RAM. Any info on these computers would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

Shadow

I downloaded a zip file of beep codes from tech republic a while back. But I dont know if the links are still good.

Kayak XU Series 04xx
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=lpv18582

Kayak XU Series 03xx
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=lpv18635

HP BIOS beep codes
http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/eng/support.html
 
Thanks, milkweed,

The first 2 are no good, but the third actually gives me some PDFs that contain info that will help.

Shadow
 
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