power up...beep...latest up date. Smoke signles. arg

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Tue Jan 08, 2002 11:59 am

not just your normal average run of the mill beap mind U. its more like 3 high pitched ones and two rumbulling basement ones. BEEP BEEP BEEP Honk Honk.

What the hell does THAT mean?! about the only thing left to yank is the cpu...but still ahvent head this one b4 I dont think.

Greg

marscheese · Post by **marscheese** » Tue Jan 08, 2002 12:03 pm

first off, be sure you unplug everything that you don't need to boot (i.e. your soundcard, hard drive, etc.) the only things you should have plugged in are, your power, your RAM, your processor, and your video card...this should be the problem. My guess is one of these is either one of these isn't in properly or maybe your CPU or RAM gave out...

DocSilly · Post by **DocSilly** » Tue Jan 08, 2002 12:06 pm

Do you know what BIOS the board uses ? AMI or AWARD or Phoenix ?
Makes it easier for me to look up the beepcodes.

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Tue Jan 08, 2002 12:13 pm

awd. it is a shuttle ak31.

1.4g (usually...sometimes it decides to lock its self at 11 instead of 10.5)
2 256 micron dimms
8500
intel nic
audigy
2940u2w

I went threw the unpluging thing already. It might be the CPU but I dont know why. I didnt move anything. ah well..maby its time I get an XP but I was wanting to wait.

Greg

DocSilly · Post by **DocSilly** » Tue Jan 08, 2002 12:22 pm

Haven't seen that beepcode either.

The only AwardBIOS beep code indicates that a video error has occurred and the BIOS cannot initialize the video screen to display any additional information. This beep code consists of a single long beep followed by two short beeps. Any other beeps are probably a RAM (Random Access Memory) problems.

This is pulled directly from http://www.phoenix.com/pcuser/awardbios ... codes.html

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Tue Jan 08, 2002 12:38 pm

Intreasting. Thanks. I have pulled everything now so I guess Ill MOD my case now. LOL!

one good thing came out of it. ARG! Ill test that later today.

Greg

Kakarot · Post by **Kakarot** » Tue Jan 08, 2002 2:28 pm

I wish my computer would honk... would be fun for the kids.

VidmanII · Post by **VidmanII** » Tue Jan 08, 2002 3:27 pm

You sure there ant some bill collector out in your driveway? :lol

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Tue Jan 08, 2002 6:53 pm

tried a different vid card same thing. No vid card same thing.

bad AGP slot?

Greg

DocSilly · Post by **DocSilly** » Tue Jan 08, 2002 7:26 pm

NOOO, only a single long beep followed by two short beeps is for videoproblem, EVERYTHING else is not documented and likely to be a RAM problem, dats what I quoted.

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Tue Jan 08, 2002 7:36 pm

time to look for a pci videocard.

the part that ticks me off is Idodnt change anything. if I putzed around with it I could careless if I messed it up then I could shake my head in stupidity and jsut go on with it.

Greg

DocSilly · Post by **DocSilly** » Tue Jan 08, 2002 8:04 pm

So, u checked da RAM ?

b-man1 · Post by **b-man1** » Tue Jan 08, 2002 8:07 pm

nexus-

my ak31 BSOD'ed me in win2000 randomly one day...and when i rebooted only 3/4 of the DDR registered....(i had 2x256MB crucial DDR)....i ended up taking one stick out. i don't know if the stick went bad or if it was the mobo...but it hasn't happened since. i tried swapping slots and it was sporadic if the RAM fully initialized or not.

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Tue Jan 08, 2002 9:21 pm

well the smoke pumping out of the system just killed about any hope of a quick revival. some of the ram contacts o none dim are black and the mboard doesnt look all that promising. hope it didnt kill anything else.

rma requests have been sent off to newegg and memorysuppliers. hope they are both good about it.

Greg

DocSilly · Post by **DocSilly** » Tue Jan 08, 2002 9:32 pm

Sorry to hear things got worse and ugly.