Bad Axe 2 beeping

[ituggle]

Just put together my new box:

Bad Axe 2
E6600
2GB corsair dominator ram pc2 6400 cas 4
eVga 8800GTX (100.65)
Vista Home Premium
Enermav 1K PSU.

Everything at stock speeds so far.

Installed Vista. New bios for mobo. Drivers. When I install a game (happened on both Quake 4 and Titan Quest), the game installs and I can go right into playing it with no problems. When I close out the game and come back to it later, as the game begins the motherboard starts a loud, high pitched beeping. The beeping stops when I close the game.

I also heard this beeping when Vista analyzed my computer for it's compatibility score (or whatever). When it analyzed anything related to video it would beep.

Not sure if I should have posted this in the Video Cards forum, but since it's the motherboard beeping, maybe this is the right forum.

Does anyone know what this means?

This is a repost of my original message over at HardOCP Forums.

 

[Beelziboss]

I think Vista is having issue identifying/working with some Vid cards on this board. I have an ati radeon 1950pro 512mb on my bad axe 2 and i get a 1.0 on my graphics score lol. That would be my guess anyway, ive only been using Vista a few days now and thats kinda what ive run across.

 

[DaddyRabbit]

Originally posted by: ituggle
Just put together my new box:

Bad Axe 2
E6600
2GB corsair dominator ram pc2 6400 cas 4
eVga 8800GTX (100.65)
Vista Home Premium
Enermav 1K PSU.

Everything at stock speeds so far.

Installed Vista. New bios for mobo. Drivers. When I install a game (happened on both Quake 4 and Titan Quest), the game installs and I can go right into playing it with no problems. When I close out the game and come back to it later, as the game begins the motherboard starts a loud, high pitched beeping. The beeping stops when I close the game.

I also heard this beeping when Vista analyzed my computer for it's compatibility score (or whatever). When it analyzed anything related to video it would beep.

Not sure if I should have posted this in the Video Cards forum, but since it's the motherboard beeping, maybe this is the right forum.

Does anyone know what this means?

This is a repost of my original message over at HardOCP Forums.

That is probably not your mobo but the GTX beeping (my GTS "squeals"). Make sure that both of the PCI-E power connectors are firmliy plugged into the GTX and I would also plug in the 4 pin AUX power connector on the mobo as well as the mobo aux power connector.

 

[ituggle]

I haven't opened the case to listen to exactly which component is beeping. I am assuming it is the motherboard as that is the only part that I know has a speaker attached. I seriously doubt (and will soon confirm) that it is the graphics card. It is a loud and steady warning type of beeping. I have heard of the noisy vid cards, but this doesn't seem like some oddly generated noise.

I will recheck my power connections tonight. I am using both of the pcie power plugs on the 8800, and all three power plugs on the mobo (24pin 8pin and 4pin molex).

 

[ituggle]

Originally posted by: Beelziboss
I think Vista is having issue identifying/working with some Vid cards on this board. I have an ati radeon 1950pro 512mb on my bad axe 2 and i get a 1.0 on my graphics score lol. That would be my guess anyway, ive only been using Vista a few days now and thats kinda what ive run across.

I was getting the 1 for a graphics score too for a while. Above the scores, see if it says there is new hardware. If it does have it test the new hardware. Or maybe just have it re-evaluate your system. That is when I first heard the beeping, when it was testing anything graphics related. After that I got a 5.9 for graphics.