K7S5A will not boot keeps beeping

[phreakyzen]

Hello all and thanks in advance

I recently tried to upgrade the BIOS on this board and everything went fine when the system rebooted after the upgrade finished. Well the system would beep and nothing would come up on the screen then about 10 seconds later it would beep again and again and again this goes on with out starting. Did I mess the BIOS and is there anyway I can correct this by replacing the BIOS chip? I have reset the CMOS and taken out all of the cards and memory still nothing.

Thanks

 

[DieHardware]

How many beeps? Beep codes

 

[cybrdmn]

I just did the same exact thing.

Of course, the first place I check for answers is the AnandTech Forum.

Mine is giving me 8 short beeps, which is video according to the amibios beep codes. It just keeps beeping 8 shorts over and over. It does the same thing whether I have a video card in it or not, pci or agp. I think this bios screwed up something as I wasn't just building this system, everything was fine up until the bios flasher rebooted the computer. I've flashed bios' hundreds of times, I've never had this kind of thing happen before.

I had done all the same thing phreakyzen mentioned, disconnected evrything, tried sdram instead of ddr ram. cleared bios settings, ext. always the same result-- 8 beeps.

Thanks for any help you can give--

Marc

 

[jatwell]

Something else you may try, hold down the "Insert" key on the keyboard and turn the power on.

Worth a shot, that sometimes works when shorting the BIOS pin doesn't work....

 

[cybrdmn]

Thanks Josh,

I forgot about trying that, unfortunately it didn't help any.

Marc

 

[DieHardware]

Did you guys unplug(or turned off) the powersupply before(and when) you cleared the CMOS jumper?

 

[cybrdmn]

[hand waving]

ooh ooh oooh, I did I did !!


[red faced]

it didn't help


Thanks,
Marc

 

[Peter]

That continuous beeping means it's sitting in the emergency procedure for failed BIOS updates.

What you need to do is format a floppy disk, put a KNOWN GOOD (!) and definitely made-for-this-board BIOS file onto it, rename the file to AMIBOOT.ROM. Now insert that disk, turn the unit on. Sit and wait until it beeps four times and reboots to new life. If it beeps differently and repeatedly, you got something of the above wrong.

 

[dpm]

Just out of interest, which BIOS versions were you guys flashing to/from?

 

[Peter]

FYI, this doesn't happen when you try to flash an unsuitable or otherwise buggy BIOS, this just happens when the BIOS _file_ is bad or the transfer to the ROM chip didn't work right.

I've been using the 2002/10/01 and 2002/10/29 releases just fine. From the earlier ones, I recall the February and June ones wouldn't work with my SCSI card, but all others were OK.

 

[dajo]

You might want to try:

1) reseating your video card
2) pulling the video card, clearing CMOS, reseat vid
3) disconnecting ATX ps connector, clearing CMOS
4) disconnecting ATX ps connector, popping the battery from the board for about 1 hour
5) removing RAM, clearing CMOS
6) removing processor, clearing CMOS
7) another video card

and any of the above combinations. I've seen some really wiggy stuff happen with motherboards. Sometimes the electrical state seems to get "stuck".

Last resort:
Pull board from case. Remove everything. Clear CMOS or pop battery for an hour. Try to boot with only Video card and RAM.

 

[cybrdmn]

I Bow down to the master !

Thanks a Million $$$ Peter

It works!

Marc

 

[cybrdmn]

dpm:

I was using the newest (10/29/02) bios upgrading a very old one, don't remember which.

I just downloaded it again and copied it to a freshly formatted floppy as Peter suggested.

Thanks for everyone's help and suggestions.

Marc