ECS K7S5A Beep Code

moonshinemadness

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Does anyone know the beep code for the K7S5A, im getting 8 beeps after the original first boot beep. It has a small maxtor drive, 1.3GHZ AMD Athlon, 512mb DDR 2700and a 52x CD Rom, nVIDIA Riva TNT2. no OS havent installed yet. Anyone know what its tranna tell me?
 

DieHardware

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Eight beeps(AMI BIOS) usually means the videocard isn't working. Make sure the videocard is seated correctly. If that doesn't work try a different card. Beep codes.
 

pspada

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Yup, I see this every time an AGP video card in not fully inserted on the edge furthest from the case.
 

moonshinemadness

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Ok, i dont think i should be allowed anywhere near a computer now... Thanks guys, thought it had an award bios so was looking at the beep codes for the bios which pointed at RAM so i was looking in completely the wrong place!! All better now thanks!