jswajsberg
Junior Member
Okay, a little background. Just assembled my first computer from scratch. Went off without a hitch, and been doing fine for the first day or two.
Parts are:
E6600
Antec NSK6500
BenQ FP93GX Monitor
PC2-4200 2x512mb Dual Channel Memory (on 2, 4 apparently, is it better to be on 1,3?)
LG 16x8x16 DVD-RW,
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB SATA2 3GB/S 7200RPM 16MB Cache
Radeon X1900 All-in-Wonder
Tricool 92mm front case fan
Now, the computer still functions perfectly in all respects. No video issues, no error messages, nothing unusual once I'm in windows.
The problem is the audio, or more specifically, the PC Speaker. Now I know mobos are designed with a series of beep codes to indicate problems, but when I start the computer it's beeping in such an erratic way that I can't make sense of it at all. Through the entire post, up to when I enter my pass to login into windows, there's several long, continous beeps, and one or two short ones at the beginning. These beeps last for well over a minute or two though, so it strikes me more as an error either in my wiring, or the speaker itself, rather than an indication that anything's truly wrong (since I've hade zero problems).
What's even more strange is that this only occurs on cold boot. If I were to reset the computer now, the beeps wouldn't come up. It's only after it's off for 8 hours that it comes up.
And the PC Speaker still works normally in Windows, beeping regularly when I get an error message, or when I receive mail.
I updated the bios, and all the audio drivers. It didn't help.
So what's the deal? Is the computer sick? Should I just disconnect the speaker?
Thanks for any help.
Parts are:
E6600
Antec NSK6500
BenQ FP93GX Monitor
PC2-4200 2x512mb Dual Channel Memory (on 2, 4 apparently, is it better to be on 1,3?)
LG 16x8x16 DVD-RW,
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB SATA2 3GB/S 7200RPM 16MB Cache
Radeon X1900 All-in-Wonder
Tricool 92mm front case fan
Now, the computer still functions perfectly in all respects. No video issues, no error messages, nothing unusual once I'm in windows.
The problem is the audio, or more specifically, the PC Speaker. Now I know mobos are designed with a series of beep codes to indicate problems, but when I start the computer it's beeping in such an erratic way that I can't make sense of it at all. Through the entire post, up to when I enter my pass to login into windows, there's several long, continous beeps, and one or two short ones at the beginning. These beeps last for well over a minute or two though, so it strikes me more as an error either in my wiring, or the speaker itself, rather than an indication that anything's truly wrong (since I've hade zero problems).
What's even more strange is that this only occurs on cold boot. If I were to reset the computer now, the beeps wouldn't come up. It's only after it's off for 8 hours that it comes up.
And the PC Speaker still works normally in Windows, beeping regularly when I get an error message, or when I receive mail.
I updated the bios, and all the audio drivers. It didn't help.
So what's the deal? Is the computer sick? Should I just disconnect the speaker?
Thanks for any help.
