computer will not come on, just beeps

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glenn

Hi,

I was playing Far Cry on my machine a few days ago and the screen
froze, I could not get out except to shut the machine down. When I
restarted the the mahine it just beeps over and over. Nothing on the
screen at all, the cpu and fan come on, the green light on the
motherboard is on and I have tried different processor, hard drive,
and floppy and it will not boot up, it just continues to beep. The fan
runs for the video card and I have unplugged and replugged in the card
and the ram. The system is an AMD Athlon XP 2800+ with an Asus A7V600
mb, Powercolor Radeon 9600 Pro video card.

Thanks,

Glenn
 
Hi,

I was playing Far Cry on my machine a few days ago and the screen
froze, I could not get out except to shut the machine down. When I
restarted the the mahine it just beeps over and over. Nothing on the
screen at all, the cpu and fan come on, the green light on the
motherboard is on and I have tried different processor, hard drive,
and floppy and it will not boot up, it just continues to beep. The fan
runs for the video card and I have unplugged and replugged in the card
and the ram. The system is an AMD Athlon XP 2800+ with an Asus A7V600
mb, Powercolor Radeon 9600 Pro video card.

Thanks,

Glenn
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Is it the same beeping as when all of the ram has been removed from the
machine ?

I think in order to make a repetitive beeping sound, the processor is
running. Perhaps your video card died ? Maybe the machine would beep
for that too.

As you were gaming at the time, that puts stress on the components.
Suspects:

1) Kill PSU via overheat.
2) Kill video card via overheat (more likely with Doom3 :-)
3) Kill Vcore circuit (bulged/leaking caps, burnt MOSFET)

(1) isn't likely, as your description makes it sound like the
PSU voltages are still there. Same with (3), as with the beeping,
the processor is running, and Vcore must still be working.
That leaves (2), a video card failure, as the thing to test.

Swap the video card into another machine, and see if it comes up.

HTH,
Paul
 
Paul,

Yeah, looks like it is the video card. I saw a mention somewhere about
that the beeping indicates the problem based on how it beeps (the
frequency and duration of beeps)like a fault code, but there was no
mention in my owner's manual for the motherboard. Anybody hear of
this?

Thanks
 
Paul,

Yeah, looks like it is the video card. I saw a mention somewhere about
that the beeping indicates the problem based on how it beeps (the
frequency and duration of beeps)like a fault code, but there was no
mention in my owner's manual for the motherboard. Anybody hear of
this?

Thanks
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Hi,

Sorry you are having this problem. Indeed, the beeps do mean
something, depending on which brand bios you have. A few links and a
few of the given codes are below. Hope you sort it out successfully.

Regards,

Ender
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Award: http://bioscentral.com/beepcodes/awardbeep.htm

1long, 2 short Video adapter error

Repeating (endless loop) Memory error

1long, 3short No video card or bad video RAM

AMI: http://www.pcmech.com/show/troubleshoot/14/

1 short System RAM refresh error

2 short memory error

8 short video adapter error



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