My first day at CDOT

When I first came in to CDOT today I wasn't expecting to start working immediately, but I was thrilled nevertheless.

First thing on the agenda, make my computer work.

The computer I was initially assigned would turn off periodically, for unknown reasons (at the time) so CDOT decided to give me another CPU. Turns out, it was one that used to be used as a server and so it didn't have a graphics card (It's a Z440 HP). So we took out the graphics card of the faulty computer and seated it into the server, hooked everything up and booted it up.

Lo and behold, the monitors didn't connect and after a few seconds of booting the computer starting sounding 6 BIOS beeps and showing 6 red flashes on the motherboard. I got on Google trying to figure out what the problem could be.

First I found this link:

HP support

Which was as nice first attempt, but no cigar.

Next, I hit the jackpot:

BIOS Beep Codes

Using CTRL-F to look for "6"...

And fixed!

Such a great day...