3 Beeps, No Video....

[Midnight]

I have a barton 2500+ on a solte 75FRNL board, 512 BH5 TwinMos and a 431W enermax PSU.

I got a 9800 pro from someone in the FS/T forum that I installed yesterday. When I first installed the card I got what I think was 3 beeps. I assumed I bumped the ram and jiggled the cables and the card booted fine.

I got into windows overclocked the card and played city of heroes for 5-6 hours then went to bed.

Computer worked fine when I woke up, then 4 hours later it wouldnt wake from sleep. I didnt think this was an issue so I just restarted it (turned psu off and on).

Now I get no video and sometimes I get a long beep that goes on over and over, or I get no beep no video. The beep I really think is 3 long beeps, but then it loops? Is that possible?

I have no idea what the issue is. I have unseated all cards and reseated. I have tried my old video card etc...

I feel like people are going to tell me to try a new psu?

I have tried running DVI and Analog and still nothing.....

Thanks very much.

 

[Czar]

read the motherboard manual for info on the beeps


and why on earth did you overclock the card right away?

 

[Don66]

Check the power connection to the video card..
Pull it out and reinsert it.

 

[Bovinicus]

Totally take apart your system and rebuild it. Also try resetting your CMOS.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

My old 75FRN Golden Flame, man was that a great board Did you start simple and try clearing the CMOS? You made certain the extra molex is connected to the card, and are using the 4pin power connector along with the ATX connector correct? *Sorry for asking you questions for n00bs but we all miss things so it never hurts to have a reminder * If a normal CMOS clearing doesn't work try this. After pulling the plug and pushing the power button to discharge the caps, set it to the clear position, pop the battery, wait 5min, put the battery back, put it back to default, and hold the insert key down while powering up. You may need to repeat this proceedure, and I personally unseated the bios chip since the fix didn't work for me. I pop it up enough to unseat it along with the other steps and reseated it before putting the battery back, and after 2 attempts I recovered a seemingly dead Golden Flame that way :beer:

If you can get it to boot, go directly to the bios and disable 8x AGP support, fastwrites, and enable vid ram caching. Good luck and let us know how it goes

 

[Midnight]

I have tried resetting the cmos the way dapunisher said and have had no luck. i still get no post. my ram i believe is fine and ive tried 3 different video cards. i just dont understand why i didnt have issues while playing games, but went to wake it from sleep and 4 hours later it wont post and wont do anything.

im going nuts here trying to figure out the issue.....