Beep codes?

[Tripleshot]

I have a dead mobo. Abit SA6R with a 933 boxed intel chip. I have rotated power supplies,ram and removed all cards, save a video. I have also changed out video cards to be sure.

I get a long beep followed by 2 short beeps and a blank screen. The key board lights flash, but thats it. I even removed the Hdd and Cdrom and DVD, all IDE cables. I just want the thing to post.

With that post code,what does it mean? Its an award bios Isuppose. I don't know for sure because I never get to see a screen.

Any help, or RMA?

 

[TunaBoo]

Swap out CPU?


I know it sounds dumb, but sometimes if you switch around the keyboard and the mouse, the keyboard flashed but it never boots past that.

 

[MJT2k]

You can also try searching on google.com or other search engine for beep codes.

 

[Tripleshot]

The keyboard/mouse connectors are color coded and in correctly. I will try removing the mouse.

 

[Tripleshot]

MJT2k
I think I said it was award. Yep I checked the manual.

 

[MJT2k]

I got this from Phoenix (they own Award).

Link

AwardBIOS -- The only AwardBIOS beep code indicates that a video error has occurred and the BIOS cannot initialize the video screen to display any additional information. This beep code consists of a single long beep followed by two short beeps. Any other beeps are probably a RAM (Random Access Memory) problem.

 

[Tripleshot]

Thats it. So that must come from bios to intialize basic video. It appears the signal is not there,so this must be a dead mobo. CPU would have a different beep tone,right? I do not have another CPU to put in it to try. I have swapped power supplies again and disabled all power cables except the main board connector. just a video card and keyboard plugged in. No post.

Edit

BTW, Thank you.

 

[MJT2k]

Try a differnet Video card. The motherboard is not dead, if it was it wouldn't beap at all - same goes for the cpu.

 

[Tripleshot]

I have traded video cards. To no avail. I haven't tried a pci video card. I'll go check my shop for one. I have a rage Fury maxx in there now.

 

[MJT2k]

Are all of the video cards known to work that you tried?

The AGP slot might be dead. If the PCI video doesn't work and if there is a ISA slot and you have and ISA video card try it. But either way, if the apg slot is dead I would RMA.

 

[Tripleshot]

Woohoo

I pulled the ATI rage fury Maxx and put in a generic card eVGA 8 meg AGP and it booted. That is fine. I didn't want the ATI Rage card anyway. It does not have W2K drivers. I need a card for all OS's. I will be running everything from 98 to unix on this box. And playing games and running raid 0.

Fingers crossed.