Continuous Beeping Noise When Booting Up

[DaftpuNk]

Feel free to ignore this as it's most definitely inapplicable...

I'm just thinking of the last CRT i had, and in fact a friends TFT which had dual inputs that could be selected between. Obviously if you had the computer in input 2 and were sat wondering why it was going into power save with input 1 selected...

[deeloughran]

How could i see if this was the problem and try to choose another input while the computer will not boot?

[DaftpuNk]

It's just something dependant on your monitor... i'm going out on a total tangent there so it's probably safe to ignore me. Do you get a different beep code error when there is no RAM in as opposed to either of the two sets?

[deeloughran]

Took out both sets of Ram, and it results in the EXACT SAME beep code. What does this mean?

[DaftpuNk]

So with the original RAM in, and none at all... same beep? Have you tried removing all non important devices such as hard disks/cd/dvd/cards other than gfx etc?

[deeloughran]

Yeh same beep with Ram and no Ram in, i removed floppy disk, 2 CD/DVD drives, and hard disk, 1 at a time to see if one of them was at fault, but had the same BEEP everytime! Have also tried the graphics card a few times by taking it out and replacing it tighter. Any other things i could try?

[DaftpuNk]

Google the beep code cross-referenced with the BIOS type and try and work out what it's indicating as being at fault. e.g. AMI/award/phoenix. Other than that it sounds like you could have exploited a lot of the options with just the hardware in that system available for testing.

[Dark Horse]

Is there any way you can test the both sets of ram in another system? Might be worth confirming they are working ok.

Just found the manual on the internet:

http://www.asrock.com/Drivers/Manual/P4S55FX2_UM.pdf

CLRCMOS1 allows you to clear the data in CMOS. The data in CMOS includes
system setup information such as system password, date, time, and system
setup parameters. To clear and reset the system parameters to default setup,
please turn off the computer and unplug the power cord, then short the solder
points for more than 3 seconds by using metal material, e.g., a paper clip. If you
need to clear the CMOS when you just finish updating the BIOS, you must boot
up the system first, and then shut it down before you do the clear-CMOS
action.

Did you put the two blue jumpers back on? It may be that the +5vsb jumper is in the wrong place and is waiting for a signal to turn on?

[schmunk]

It's possible that your BIOS is curently set to not accept USB keyboards on boot. Have you got a PS-2 keyboard you can try?


Edit: Although this would usually result in BIOS booting with a screen to say 'No keyboard present' or similar...

[DaftpuNk]

Hmm, you'd still expect some display output.

[deeloughran]

Took the jumpers out and put back in today but to no effect with both sets of Ram

Did you put the two blue jumpers back on? It may be that the +5vsb jumper is in the wrong place and is waiting for a signal to turn on?

Yeh i put the blue jumper on both just to make sure!

That quote from the manual is about the tiny silver dots, don't really know what to do with them to reset the CMOS, i touched them with a paper clip for a few seconds like the jumpers but nothing seems to have happened.

Is there any way you can test the both sets of ram in another system? Might be worth confirming they are working ok.

I can check later in someones house, but i'm just going to check the old set incase the new set causes this same problem in the other computer then i'd get hit ! Can't see it being the case that both sets of Ram broke while trying to install them though...

Google the beep code cross-referenced with the BIOS type and try and work out what it's indicating as being at fault. e.g. AMI/award/phoenix.

How can i work out what Bios type my mobo is, did a quick google search but found nothing, but did do alot of beep searching last night, it limits it really to a :
Memory
Graphics Card
or in some cases it said it could be the mobo itself...

Edit: Well took it to the gf's house but her 2 computers are not pc3200 compatible so must bring it somewhere to get fixed as this looks like a techy needs to look at it physically...on a side note when i took out Ram out of her PC i got the same beep noise so DEF Ram related problem.

Thanks for all your help and suggestions!