Help! Post Error

[ZippyT]

Hey guys (and gals)

Major issue here...

Asus A7n8x MBoard, AMD 2500XP, 512MB Ram, Geforce3 ti200 Vid card, Audigy sound card.

Ok, a couple of weeks ago i came home from work with my computer emiting one long beep, pausing about as long as the beep, and then repeating the beep, etc...


I thought it might the Asus Monitor for Temp or something, but i could not get the monitor to come back from Power save mode... so i shut off the computer and rebooted... everything seemed fine.

No harm, no foul..

To be safe, I have been shutting down the computer when i leave home, just in case it was something faulty and i could be there if it happens again so i could diagnose it.

Well, one day earlier in the week, when i turned it on, the fans where going, but it wouldnt post, no beep, nothing... I figured something had happened, i opened the case, and checked if everything was seated and the leads all hooked up... no problem..

I retried a few times, and i finally got it to boot no problem... again, I knew i needed to research this and get it taken care of, which is what i planned to do over the weekend....

but on Friday night, I came home and booted the comptuer to check email and things, and it wouldnt post... this time its back to the one long beep, pause, long beep, etc... just keeps repeating...


I searched around and i cant find anything that says what this beep could be.. they always refer to one long with a short or 2 beeps...

I do have an old Mboard i could swap out, but i think (and actualy HOPE), its my vid card, but i dont want to do all the work to find out its something else...

Any guidance or ideas would be greatly appreciated

 

[ArachPres]

If you haven't changed anything in the BIOS and you get the error message than it's likely another device aside from the motherboard. The simplest thing to do is swap parts until you can eliminate the culprit.

A BEEP with no post is much better than NO BEEP with no post. The Beep likely suggests that a device such as RAM, Video Card, or CPU is bad, not installed correctly or has errors. Try swapping devices if you can, but if you can't then I would suggest finding another computer (maybe a friend) and trying you video card, RAM, CPU etc in that machine until you come across a problem.

If you do post, run stability tests (Prime95, memtest86, Sandra Diagnostics, etc) and see if there is a hardware failure.

I believe that's all I can think of off the top of my head. I'll let you know if I think of anything else.

 

[Operandi]

Have your tried getting ahold of Asus?

Other then that the only thing to do is test every component. If it?s not the board it?s most likely the video card or memory, or maybe the PSU.

Also, if it boots do what ArachPres said, run prime or super pi, and then some a looping demo of UT or something. I run prime a min of 12 hours on every machine I build and prime + UT simultaneously for 24+ hours on all my own machines.

 

[bonanz3000]

have you considered your power supply? sounds like that could be something possibly causing it and you didnt list it in your parts, commonly overlooked. added new hard ware lately maybe? just a thought.

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: ZippyT
Hey guys (and gals)

Major issue here...

Asus A7n8x MBoard, AMD 2500XP, 512MB Ram, Geforce3 ti200 Vid card, Audigy sound card.

Ok, a couple of weeks ago i came home from work with my computer emiting one long beep, pausing about as long as the beep, and then repeating the beep, etc...


I thought it might the Asus Monitor for Temp or something, but i could not get the monitor to come back from Power save mode... so i shut off the computer and rebooted... everything seemed fine.

No harm, no foul..

To be safe, I have been shutting down the computer when i leave home, just in case it was something faulty and i could be there if it happens again so i could diagnose it.

Well, one day earlier in the week, when i turned it on, the fans where going, but it wouldnt post, no beep, nothing... I figured something had happened, i opened the case, and checked if everything was seated and the leads all hooked up... no problem..

I retried a few times, and i finally got it to boot no problem... again, I knew i needed to research this and get it taken care of, which is what i planned to do over the weekend....

but on Friday night, I came home and booted the comptuer to check email and things, and it wouldnt post... this time its back to the one long beep, pause, long beep, etc... just keeps repeating...


I searched around and i cant find anything that says what this beep could be.. they always refer to one long with a short or 2 beeps...

I do have an old Mboard i could swap out, but i think (and actualy HOPE), its my vid card, but i dont want to do all the work to find out its something else...

Any guidance or ideas would be greatly appreciated

My router (linux Freesco running in an old PC) did the same thing.

It was my video card. When it posted there was one long beep, silence, then one long beep.

I swapped the card out and bingo, no more beep.