What Is Wrong With My Friend's Computer?!

[Kenji4861]

I have a friend that has use to have a perfectly working computer with the ABIT KT7A motherboard and a Thunderbird 1ghz

Since a week ago, soon as she turns on the computer, it just makes a loud long beep (sounds like it's divided into 4 beeps, but they are all connected) and then it shuts down. Nothing shows up on the screen. I cleaned out the inside.. It's not the graphic card or memory problem, what can it be? Anyone had this happen before?

 

[TheOmegaCode]

take out the RAM, plug it back in. Take out the Vid Card, plug it back in.. Just keep doing that... Might be the RAM...

 

[chickendinner]

You look up what the beep code means?

 

[kerokeroppi82]

It could be the ram, or CPU, probably the ram tho

 

[Geekbabe]

you might get a better range of responses if you repost this over on the technical Support forum

 

[nihil]

check the beep code for the mobo. it'll tell you exactly what it's trying to say.

 

[Beau]

Most likely CPU problems. If it were memory, it would be broken beeps. VGA, it would be short beeps with one long. Check the CPU settings. Try using a different CPU.

 

[loup garou]

This should be in Tech Support.

But anyways, it's probably the CPU (from here):

No beep at all - this means your motherboard is dead, either due to a defective or underpowered power supply, poorly seated CPU or RAM, or a dead-on-arrival board
One beep - board is working fine
One long beep then machine shuts down - faulty, improperly installed or missing CPU
Beeeeeep-beep-beep - this means no video card detected (or poorly seated video card)
A single tone, repeated over and over. This is a memory problem (could be the DIMM, the controller, or the CPU cache memory).
A two-tone siren, generally caused by overheating or out of specification voltages.
Rapid stream of beeps - this means a key is stuck on your keyboard, it is not properly plugged in, or the keyboard is incompatible in some way
Four beeps then machine shuts down - with BIOS version WW or WZb00 - this is because these version of the BIOS will shut down your machine if no fan tachometer signal is detected on FAN1 header. Make sure you attach a fan to this header! BIOS WZb01 and later have this functionality disabled by default, and it can be enabled in the BIOS.
The AWARD BIOS offers no other codes - any other error messages are displayed on the screen. Also see Award error codes.

 

[Beau]

hey, werk, you should add "incompatible cpu" to that list. If you put a Tualatin in a non Tualatin MB, it does the same thing.

 

[loup garou]

<< hey, werk, you should add "incompatible cpu" to that list. If you put a Tualatin in a non Tualatin MB, it does the same thing. >>


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