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[LOLyourFace]

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yes, it's a link to my thread @ GH.. no traffic and prob must be solved TONIGHT.. (ridiculous)

please help me..

please..


please?

please...

 

[fatbaby]

Originally posted by: LOLyourFace
I'm building a new sytem for my bro.. with everything up, when I turn it on, I'd get the following symtom:

Beeps once immediately, about 2 second pause then, a constant beep for about 5 seconds until it shuts down automatically

The motherboard is Soyo Dragon and I referred to the mobo manual and it said: "the mobo checks itself for CPU fan before booting up, if no fan is detected, it will automatically shut down (with beeps)"

Now let me bullet things so it's easier for you to understand:
*A Brand new CPU Fan (SVC GC68) is installed with the cable plugged to the RIGHT socket
*When powered on, the CPU fan spins perfectly (and everything lights up etc), yet it shuts down anyways with the above symtom mentioned
*The fan is not defective because I have TWO of those CPU fans and they both work perfectly on my old system
*Clearing the CMOS has been done to death
*Based on 8 hours of speculation, I believe it's the mobo not recognizing the fan, thus shutting down. No other parts are defective (memory, vidcard, cpu, etc)

But TAKE NOTE!
When I connected the CPU fan cable to the mobo again for the 873th time, this particular time booted up perfectly! (floppy making noise, no beeps, passing POST..) So I turned it off myself to hook up everything then do it again.. thinking it fixed itself.. but yea, as you guessed it, that never occurred again.

So that concludes to me that the problem lies between the CPU fan and the mobo (most likely mobo) and when I read the mobo manual again, it mentioned, remove the M/B from the case and test the system. The M/B might be shorted to the case.
What does that mean and could that be the problem?

[i guess im sitting ducks until you guys answer.. please...]

Take out your mobo and put it back in. A mobo standoff might be exposed and would be fux0ring up your mobo (HIGHLY unlikely though, but i'd take it off just in case)

EDIT: that constant beep may be the high temp alarm

 

[LOLyourFace]

EDIT: that constant beep may be the high temp alarm

err due to what? cpu never had the time to be heated

 

[Freejack2]

No clue what processor or peripherals this has, might help if you posted that.
Don't know much about soyo boards. I use mostly Asus boards. Check to make sure your connections are tight. You'll feel really stupid if a loose cable is causing all this.
Check to make sure the ide cables aren't reversed. On Asus boards it will not post if the ide cables are reversed.

If all this fails take everything out. Don't piss and whine, just do it. The power cable isn't too long so you'll need to put something under the board, some newspaper or something non-conductive. The motherboard should not be in the case or touching anything. Plug the power cable into the motherboard, one stick of ram, the video card (attach it to the monitor too), and the keyboard. Also of course make sure your heatsink fan is plugged in also.
Next either attach the power switch (only the power switch nothing else, no reset, no power led, no ide led, no drive cables, nothing) or use something metal to contact the two power pins.

If it posts try adding on all the peripherals and cables one at a time until it stops posting. If it doesn't stop posting it was probably a loose cable or a standoff shorting something.

Also make sure the cmos jumper is not set on reset bios.


Edit: Couple more thoughts. Make sure the cpu ratio and bus speed jumpers are set properly. If the cpu ratio is off it won't boot and if the bus speed is too high it will rarely if ever boot. If your board sets it by the bios, make sure you reset your bios via the cmos jumper.
Also try different ram if you have it.

 

[BlueApple]

bump and good luck