Beep Code on Abit NF7

[macspizza]

OK, it has been a while since I've posted here but have always been treated well. I'll keep this brief but informative. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have a friend who needed a new PSU. On the old one, there would be no lights on the MOBO and there was zero power. He couldn't get anything from pushing the power button.

He asked me to install the PSU for him. Obviously this is a very easy process. The computer is older, but I can tell it was top of line when he bought it. So, I install everything. I get a two toned beep code. The LED inside the case is red (it is getting power and on standby).

I have done some online reading and it says that the two-toned beep code is either overheating or incorrect voltage. Both his PSUs are 12V, so I don't know how it could be that and I doubt it could be overheating. He was using the computer for a long time prior to the PSU going bad and never overclocked. The only thing I can see as a possibility would be to re-seat the HSF but why would it suddenly say it is overheating when it hasn't been used for over a month? Could it be that at some point before the PSU went the core on the processor fried?

Any thoughts of things to try would be great. Thank you for reading.

 

[macspizza]

Bump

 

[Zap]

Is one of the two beeps longer? As in "beeeeeeeeeeeeep beep?"

 

[Quiksilver]

It's not overheating or some voltage problems, wherever you got that from was incorrect.

Generally 2 short beeps is bad ram or it needs to be re-seated.

 

[macspizza]

Originally posted by: Zap
Is one of the two beeps longer? As in "beeeeeeeeeeeeep beep?"

It seems like a two-toned beep to me. The two beeps are definitely not the same.

 

[macspizza]

Originally posted by: Quiksilver
It's not overheating or some voltage problems, wherever you got that from was incorrect.

Generally 2 short beeps is bad ram or it needs to be re-seated.

I got it from here:

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=218664

1. No beep at all - this means your motherboard is dead, either due to a defective or underpowered power supply, poorly seated CPU or RAM, or a dead-on-arrival board
2. One beep - board is working fine
3. One long beep then machine shuts down - faulty, improperly installed or missing CPU
4. 1 short(Beep) System booting is normally
5. 2 short(Beep) CMOS setting error
6. 1 long - 1 short(Beep) DRAM ERROR
7. 1 long - 2 short(Beep) Display card or monitor connected error
8. 1 long - 3 short(Beep) Keyboard Error
9. 1 long - 9 short(Beep) ROM Error
10. Long(Beep) continuous DRAM isn't inserted correctly
11. Short(Beep) continuous POWER supply has a problem
12. A two-tone siren, generally caused by overheating or out of specification voltages
13. Four beeps then machine shuts down. This is because this version of the BIOS will shut down your machine if no fan tachometer signal is detected on the fan header. Make sure you attach a fan to the FAN1 or FAN4 header or clear CMOS to reset to default (no checking).

The two beeps definitely have two different sounds to them which is why I assumed #12 as the culprit.

 

[macspizza]

Anyone have another suggestion? Re-seat the RAM you think? I'd like to avoid re-seating the HSF. I'm just not sure what else could cause this. It's an older computer but I'd still like to get it running. Thanks again.