Help - Getting beeps

[Mister T]

OK... I decided to take my CII out and mess with
the jumpers for voltage. When I was done playing around, I put it back into the mobo, tried to boot and started getting beeps. The beeps are a total of 4. The first beep is the longest followed by 3 short beeps.

Anyone know what this is?

 

[Electric Amish]

Usually RAM or Vid Card...

Double check them, as well as the CPU are seated fully and correctly.

Also, while you're in there, double check all the IDE cables...

amish

 

[Mister T]

but I never touched either of those
just the CPU...
I reseated everything.
CPU, Video Card, and RAM.

no even a post !!!

just 4 beeps........ grrrrrrrrrr

 

[Ulysses]

Search for "beep code" at www.pcguide.com and root around at that huge site:
http://www.pcguide.com/_vti_bin/shtml.exe/search-c.html
and
http://www.pcguide.com/ts/x/sys/beep/index.htm

For example:
http://www.pcguide.com/ts/x/sys/beep/award.htm

 

[Ulysses]

Maybe try resetting the BIOS to its defaults at startup by pressing the appropriate key(s) at startup.

Or consider "clearing the CMOS" with the jumpers on the mobo.

Then reset the BIOS to your desired values.

 

[Mister T]

alright.

Check this out.
I swapped out the RAM for some other stuff I had - no help.
I pulled the video card - a V550 out, and put in an ISA 1mb card.

IT BOOTED right up !!!

After a couple boots, I took out the ISA card and threw the
V550 I just took out - It booted right up. WTF?

That is so annoying. If something is broke then it should stay
broke. I just wasted 1.5 hours of my time on this POS.

 

[ltk007]

The video card probably wasn't seated right. Taking it out and putting it back in fixed that.

 

[Mister T]

it had been working fine for the past month or so.
I only had touched the cpu.
even before I swapped out video cards, I tried reseatting the
video card. That did nothing.

It was only after booting with the other video card did it then
boot with the original.

 

[Viper GTS]

My GeForce did that in my BF6. Pissed off the people I bought the GeForce from, 'cause I assumed it died. My board would boot fine with an ISA card installed, but with the AGP GeForce it wouldn't post. Threw in another AGP board, it posted fine... Returned the GeForce, it worked fine in their systems. Go figure.

Viper GTS