PC Won't Start!

[Jonny_Darko]

Hi all

I'm having a frustrating problem with my PC - when I turn it on, it just beeps at me. Beeps are 1-2 seconds long with a pause of the same length inbetween. And that's all it does.

90% of the time it works fine. Then it does this and I just fiddle with random parts until it works again. It hasn't done it for a couple of weeks this time but now I can't seem to put it right.

Does anyone know what could be up? The hard drive was recently reformatted and is apparently free of errors.

The motherboard is - I think - an Abit VH6...

Please help!

 

[TdC]

hmm. go to your mobo's maker's site and search for bios error beeps. that gives you what's wrong. an educated guess? take your gfx card out, re-seat it carefully. a good idea could also be re-plugging every cable you can see.

 

[phlash]

Mine did that when the GFX card didn't initialise properly, which happened rather regularly

After some investigation and card swapping it turned out to be a problem with the cheapo GFX card not working properly with my 1.5V only AGP4x.

Mine is an ABit Mobo as well (BD7-II).

 

[jaba]

Dont know if you have solved it yet but have a look at this if you havent:
http://www.pcguide.com/ts/x/sys/beep/