Help it's beeping at me :(

[danger]

AMD Athlon XP 2000
Abit KX7-333 no raid
512mb pc2700 DDR
Abit Siluro Geforce 4 Ti4200 128mb
Maxtor 60gb HDD
Iomega Zip250
Soundblaster Live! 5.1

WinXP Pro SP1 / Red Hat 8.0


OK it started about 2 hours ago... I'd been trying to flash an old serial USR message modem to V.90 (haven't used it since the days when X2 was around).... the monitor powered down as if the comp had gone into suspend and wouldn't wake from it... rebooted the computer everything seemed fine... except after about 2 minutes in windows I got an error... which mentioned something about Win32 somthing has crashed would you like to send an error report... but within a second the computer went into what looked like suspend mode again and started beeping.... 1 beep every 5 seconds, continuously Now I rebooted... checked my disk for virus using norten 2003 as a boot CD... nothing.... I had a look in the bios... my CPU was running at 52C and the system temp was 28C volatages seemed to be fine.... +5v was at 4.97 +12v at 12.01 AGP at 1.5v don't remember the rest...... I rebooted again and now I just get the same beep codes whenever i switch on.... 1 beep about 1.5 seconds in length every 5 seconds.....

any ideas what's wrong oh i'm using a 350watt PSU if that makes ne difference....

I've tryed reseating the gfx card... the ram etc but I've had no luck I still get the same problems.... can ne1 help please?

 

[Testin da Cable]

remove power ; drain cmos

turn on again.

may help

 

[danger]

Cheers.... no luck I'm afraid I'm really stuck as too what to do... spose I could order some more mem.... try a diff GFX card.... dang. it had been working so well in the 3 weeks since I build it... gah this was my first time at building a comp

 

[xane]

When TdC says "remove power", he means disconnect the cable from the PSU to the mobo, this is the normal way of resetting thermal cut outs.

 

[xane]

Aslo check out
http://www.pcguide.com/ts/x/sys/beep/award.htm

 

[Insane]

Only thing I can think of is to remove everything and reseat it into the board.. then clear your cmos (pull power plug, change CMOS jumper to clear cmos, put jumper back in place and apply power)

the beeping sounds a lot like the memory is at fault, where the board thinks its "incompatible memory or memory problem"



Either that or you got a stand-off underneath the motherboard which is shorting a part of it out (most commonly near the AGP slot and it would stop the machine from POST'ing until knocked, card re-seated, or removed)

which means dismantling the insides of it (you can leave the drives 'n stuff inside it, its just removing the guts of the machine ) and checking each stand-off points to a specific hole on the board.

i'd be prone to sticking with the memory problem, its the only award beep i remember where its long beeping constantly.

( BEEEEEP BEEEEEP BEEEEEP BEEEEEP BEEEEEP BEEEEEP BEEEEEP BEEEEEP BEEEEEP BEEEEEP BEEEEEP)

 

[Testin da Cable]

did it work?

 

[Insane]

i think he broke it :uhoh:

*points at TdC*

it was HIS fault!

 

[danger]

I'll give that a go.... so I'll strip the thing down to it's guts and reassemble!

I'll keep ya posted

By everything please say i can leave my CPU and heatsink on there.... I found getting the heatsink on the hardest part of building the comp

 

[danger]

Errrr wierd... i'm halfway through reassembling the poota.... but i noticed a sticker on my bios chip saying..... pheonix bios.......


Now I was pretty sure it had an Award bios.... in fact the abit site says it has an award bios..... a bit odd don't you think (no pun intended )

 

[S-Gray]

I dont think there would be any need in taking off the CPU/Heatsink

 

[danger]

Didn't think so... but sadly putting the whole thing back together had no effect............ du think the ram module's fux0red?

Grr wish I had a spare I could try but i've only got 133 SDRAM in this dude....


fucknipples!


Any other ideas?! I mean I can't send back a ram module if i'm not sure... what's the cheapest / smallest module of pc2700 DDR do they do 128 chips? Du think it's worth getting one and checking it out?

 

[Testin da Cable]

that ram...is it one stick? were it two or more you could try to isolate a possibly broken stick by swapping them out one by one till you find it.

 

[danger]

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yes it's a single 512mb chip :s

need to find a DDR stick... all the retards I know IRL are still using PC100 SDRAM with their lightning fast PII systems

hmm I need the cheapest module I can find really to play test with... can u get 128mb DDR chips?

Hmmm *Heads over to scan*

so what are the options?

Most likely a fux0red memory chip....

motherboard being shorted.... I see that as unlikely as it died a slow and painful death...

any thing else I should check...

cheers for ya help! appreciated

 

[Testin da Cable]

hmm sucks a bit that does :/

it's still far too early for me to even begin to offer coherent advice. good luck

 

[danger]

Heh....... cheers TdC.... my first port of call is to test this dodgy ram stick, then see where to go from there....

oh well my P3 is purring away no need to brake out the PET I have up in the loft heh

 

[danger]

How irritating that my computer is still in pieces on the floor... that means it's officially been out of action longer than it's been in action...


let that be a lesson to you... scan = Fucktardedcuntnips!