Beeeeeeep Beep Beep. Is my video card dead?

[Confused]

That is what i get when i turn on my PC now

I switched out my Creative GF2MX with a friend's, with TVout, cos we wanted to do some big screen gaming. I just out back my GF2, and when i start up all i get is BEEEEEEEEEP BEEP BEEP (1 long, 2 short beeps). The only thing that has changed is the gfx card.

The important system specs are:

Abit KT7, latest BIOS
Athlon 1.0 @ 1.43GHz
Creative GF2MX 32MB DDR


Is my GF2 dead? It happens to be about 1yr 14days since i bought it, so any warranty would probably be out of date now anyway

What can i do with this, and is it a video card related problem?

ConfusedBW

 

[soni]

Try to stop overclocking for a moment when you test the new card.

The other card might not take the overclocking as weel as your original one..

Have you tried to put the old card back in, does it work???
Try to reseat it, sometimes its a back connection in the AGP socket...

Hope you get it to work, imagine to be without a computer during the holiday :Q

 

[Vortex22]

Look in your motherboard manual for beep codes, they should be in there.

 

[lane42]

BW,

Maybe you can find something here Beep codes I beleave the KT7 has an Award Bios.

 

[MustangSVT]

beeeeep beep beep, either problem with memory or your video card might not be plugged in correctly.

take the card out. look at all the little pins on that AGP port (get a flash light for better viewing pleasure..)
sometimes some pins on those agp ports can be bent or pressed in (rare, but happened to my pc before but its ok now).
what i did is to get a piece of normal paper and fold it in several times so it has thinkness of normal agp card, then use some VHS tape head cleaning solution, insert& take out the paper several times (it got pretty dirty), and plugged it my Radeon back and its working fine ever since.

the easiest way to find out if its the card's problem or ur m/b is to try another video card on it.

hope u good luck!.

also, on that memory part, reinsert those memory and reboot several times, see what happens.

on my friends old K6-2 400 computer used to do that when he had older memory on the motherboard, but rebooting several times would fix the problem. after we replaced ram with pc100, it worked fine.

 

[Freewolf]

Reseat the card. It's not in the slot good.

 

[Jeff7]

My Epox 8KTA3 with GF2 Pro is doing that too. Beeeeep beep beep. I hit reset then and it boots normally.

 

[maap]

Depends on the Bios. Here's the codes for Award and AMI.

BIOS Beep Sound core list


AWARD BIOS
Beep Sound Message
1 short(Beep) System booting is normally.
2 short(Beep) CMOS setting error
1 long - 1 short(Beep) DRAM ERROR
1 long - 2 short(Beep) Display card or monitor connected error
1 long - 3 short(Beep) Keyboard Error
1 long - 9 short(Beep) ROM Error
Long(Beep) continuous DRAM hasn't inset correctly.
Short(Beep) continuous POWER supply has problem.

AMI BIOS
Beep Sound Message
1 short(Beep) DRAM Flash Error
2 short(Beep) DRAM ECC Check Error
3 short(Beep) DRAM Detect Fail
5 short(Beep) CPU Error
6 short(Beep) Keyboard Error
8 short(Beep) Display card memory Error
9 short(Beep) ROM Error
1 long - 3 short(Beep) DRAM Damage
1 long - 8 short(Beep) Display card or monitor connected error