My friend has a 4 year old PC with a AGP card.
1) If he powers on the PC after a long time, it responds with one long beep followed by two short ones. This indicates : "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. " . The CPU cooler fan, LED on the mobo are on.
2) If he then shuts down the PC ( presses the power button on the cabinet for 4 secs ), it shuts down properly.
3) If he then immediately ( or within a short time, say less than an hour ) powers on the PC it boots and works OK.
I removed all PCI cards, disconnected the hard disk & the DVD drive. Same problem. So the fault must be, afaik, with either the mobo or psu.
Any comments ? He does not have another PSU so I couldn't test it with that.
btw : He has recently replaced the AGP card. This card was being used by someone else before, so it should be OK. The one he had went bad - he had been using it for 4 years.
1) If he powers on the PC after a long time, it responds with one long beep followed by two short ones. This indicates : "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. " . The CPU cooler fan, LED on the mobo are on.
2) If he then shuts down the PC ( presses the power button on the cabinet for 4 secs ), it shuts down properly.
3) If he then immediately ( or within a short time, say less than an hour ) powers on the PC it boots and works OK.
I removed all PCI cards, disconnected the hard disk & the DVD drive. Same problem. So the fault must be, afaik, with either the mobo or psu.
Any comments ? He does not have another PSU so I couldn't test it with that.
btw : He has recently replaced the AGP card. This card was being used by someone else before, so it should be OK. The one he had went bad - he had been using it for 4 years.
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