A8N-SLI Deluxe 1 long beep, 2 short beeps

[daggermeerkat]

Ok .. this was working fine until an hour ago. It won't boot up and instead gives me 1 long beep and 2 short beeps which apparently is a video error according to the Award BIOS Beep code errors I read online as the manual has no beep error table.

All fans spin up, even the HDD spins up .. but I don't even get any display message.

The video card definately works as I used it in another system, even tried the video card in adjacent slot as its SLI mobo .. I have cleared the CMOS also but to no avail. Anyone who have a deluxe experienced this problem?

EDIT: Have tried booting with one stick of RAM in different slots, nada.

And since I can't see anything onscreen .. this would definately be a motherboard video slot problem, wouldn't it?

 

[Quiksilver]

Reseat video card and make sure all power cables are snug.

 

[daggermeerkat]

Tried reseating like 20 times .. no luck, and its a 8600gt .. so no power requirements.

 

[Quiksilver]

Is the dual card chip thing in the right position? (like I know you supposed to flip it one way to use sli and flip it the other for normal use). On the other system are you using a different monitor or is it the same one?

 

[daggermeerkat]

Yep, its in the right position .. I tried both slots also, interchanged the slot selector. Nope, same monitor. Have tried two video cards already both of which work in my other system.

 

[Quiksilver]

Sounds like it's RMA time.

 

[daggermeerkat]

Already packed .. I so don't want a market value refund.

 

[AE3Wolfman]

I did have that board, $$##@ thing drove me nuts. First one I got right when they came out and it cooked my A64 3K by setting the freq to 3Ghz(bios issue). that lasted about 4 months when the Nvidia network controller died(winxp went nuts till I disabled it in bios. used the second network controller for a couple months till it died too. RMA'd that board. Just changed it out when it refused to cooperate with the 9600gt I just got, their tech support kept saying my PSU was underpowered and that the 9600 uses more power than a 8800(I just laughed and hung up). I gotta admit once I got the third one it was rock solid til the issue with the video card(I don't think the A8N series is completely in compliance with the PCI-E 1.1 standard) which I only got to work in 1X mode by putting it in the second PCI-E slot.

 

[Quiksilver]

Originally posted by: AE3Wolfman
I did have that board, $$##@ thing drove me nuts. First one I got right when they came out and it cooked my A64 3K by setting the freq to 3Ghz(bios issue). that lasted about 4 months when the Nvidia network controller died(winxp went nuts till I disabled it in bios. used the second network controller for a couple months till it died too. RMA'd that board. Just changed it out when it refused to cooperate with the 9600gt I just got, their tech support kept saying my PSU was underpowered and that the 9600 uses more power than a 8800(I just laughed and hung up). I gotta admit once I got the third one it was rock solid til the issue with the video card(I don't think the A8N series is completely in compliance with the PCI-E 1.1 standard) which I only got to work in 1X mode by putting it in the second PCI-E slot.

It's 1.0a complaint not 1.1 which is why you were having issues with the 9600GT. I don't know about the BIOS issue, but most newer boards to tend to have a few BIOS issues for the first couple of months. The power issue thing with the 9600GT sounds more like the nvidia driver issue that was a plague for users up until recently where nvidia finally fixed it.

My a8n-sli deluxe is still running just fine and has been for since I got it(almost 5 years ago).

 

[AE3Wolfman]

Only thing I can figure is the Tech support guy was assuming that because the 8800 is a power hog that the 9600 would use more power and would require a beefier psu. Thanks for the 1.0a compliance answer. Don't get me wrong, it is a solid board and I'll be putting mine in my mother in laws comp when i visit next time, but it does have some quirks(all boards do, I think).

 

[daggermeerkat]

Well .. I absolutely loved my board .. FSB could hit 320 no problems. Glad it died before the warranty ran out as I was jus going to sell it off.