Continous Beeping

[Ejhocky313]

Last night I was trying to do a little over clocking on the computer and I ran into a couple of snags on the way. It was all fine and dandy though because on my Gigabyte motherboard, if it doesn't start up right the first couple tries it will reset the computer BIOS.

heres where the problem arose...

It restarted and instead of just resetting the BIOS, as soon as the computer turns on I get a continuous short beep, every time I restart it it does the same.

I reset the BIOS-still same thing
I took the battery out for a minute or so-same thing

I looked in the manual and it said that it is a "power problem"
I made sure everything is plugged in and connected fine, no luck...

Anyone have any ideas? Could the PSU have went south on me, it's only 2 years old-Antec 550Watt.

Thank you

 

[robisbell]

sounds like you probably damaged either the CPU or the GPU, it could be an antec. I had one for 4 months and it died and they will not replace it.

 

[Ejhocky313]

How could the CPU have been damaged?

wouldn't it just not start up, I mean it's not like I had some outrageous vCore set.

 

[robisbell]

the general rule when you overclock a system you're overclocking every component, and that it's a very good chance of killing hardware.

 

[Ejhocky313]

perhaps, but...It was never technically overclocked.

and to further this I bought a new Power Supply, and it is still doing the same thing....the next thing I will try I guess is a new motherboard...

 

[robisbell]

Motherboard, video card, ram, cpu.

 

[piasabird]

Just read the manual and see what that beep code means.

Take it apart and start over and test it one part at time. With just a processor you should bet a beep code for no RAM. With the Ram you should get a beep code for no video. With Video you should get a bios screen and a message for no operating system.

Something could just be not be sitting right in the case like the video card or the ram or a loose cable.

Dont see the advantage to overclocking. You are just taking the chance you might have to replace good hardware faster.

It could be an overheating alarm in the BIOS or some stupid intrusion alarm setting. Maybe the CPU Cooler is not sitting just right.

 

[Quiksilver]

Continuous beeping is generally bad ram, I suggest trying to re-seating your ram modules, or pull one out, see if it goes away.

 

[Ejhocky313]

I put a new motherboard in....same thing, so I guess rules out the motherboard, although I will be keeping the new motherboard. I am going to try to get my hands on some other RAM and go from there...

Thanks to all for your help.

 

[Ejhocky313]

Bought a cheap stick of generic RAM, it posted...so this week I will get some good corsair, and be back to things in no time.

Thanks Again...

 

[Quiksilver]

Your welcome.