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Weird Problem With My System

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Frankie

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Here is what happened. I left my computer on over night downloading a game demo. When I woke up this morning I had a message saying windows had updated some files, I have the autoupdate for windows turned on, and I needed to restart the computer. This is when it gets weird.

When I restarted the internal speaker let out one long beep and two short beeps. The monitor was blank and it wouldn't post. I turned off the power switch for a minute, turned it back on and the same thing happened. I came home from work and now everything is fine. It started right up and I'm now posting this message.

I looked in my motherboard manual but I didn't see anything about what the different beeps mean. I thought it would say, but it's not there or I missed it. Any suggestions as to what this might be? I was thinking it might be the video card crapping out, but I'm not sure.

My specs are as follows and as copied from the link in my sig:

CPU: AMD X2 4800 Duel Core 2400MHz
Motherboard: Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe
Memory: 2048 MB of Corsair DDR400
Video Card: EVGA 7900 GT OC Nvidia GeForce
Hard Drive: Western Digital 150.0 GB @ 10000 RPMS
Additional Hard Drives: 300gb Seagate ATA 133
Monitor: Hitachi LCD
DVD R/W: Pioneer 16x16
Storage Interface: IDE
Sound Card: Sound Blaster XFI Platinum
Internet Connection: Verizon xDSL @ 1.5mb
Operating System: Windows XP Professional
 
1st tip - never leave auto-update enabled (or any other auto running or scheduled stuff) when doing a long download. Yer just cruisin for a bruisin...

I mean you really expect M$ bloatware to multitask cleanly... :roll:

2nd tip - Technical Support section.

.bh.
 
Originally posted by: pkme2
Check "My Beeps" below.
Click to expand...

I just did, found your sig in another topic you posted it. 😀

Sounds like the video card crapping out... or maybe just a weird coincidence.
 
Ok, I just rebooted my computer after leaving it on overnight and it did the same thing again.

I decided to test something. Once I got it started again, I rebooted after only a few minutes. It worked fine. No problems.

I'm sure it's the video card but now I'm wondering why. Could the problem be the video card overheating? If that's not the case than is it just my card crapping out on me? Could there be any other reasons why it would do that?

Any help would be appreciated.
 
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