bleeping annoying

[moconnell]

Okay, my pc is down and help would be appreciated.

I've got a asus p4s8x motherboard for socket 478 p4 2.4 (533 fsb, non-ht). A couple of weeks ago it started bleeping. High and mid tone bleeps in an irregular but steady stream. At first it was not alot and tolarable but it grew to a torrent of annoying bleeps. I thought it might be a warning about temperature or wotnot but used a cpu monitor and all seemed good.

So i went into the bios, saw in there the cpu temp etc. was okay and was looking for a way to turn off the bleeping but started playing with theoverclocking settings that i had not seen before. I tried an 'improvement' and rebooted. The voice came on ..."startup fails due to hardware overclocking". Okay I'll go back into the bios and reset everything. ohh i can't becuase it won't get that far...next step manually reset the bios by removing the cmos battery and changing a jumper for a few secs. Now i can boot into the bios and it say i need to reboot again to set the cpu up. I do and then i get back to my Grub screen for choosing linux or windows but i can't choose any option with up or down on my keyboard as normal and the screen stays there even though it should auto load linux after a few secs. So in reboot and press del for the bios - it allows that- but again i can't click on left or right to choose menus. It does not respond to ctrl-alt-del. Tried two differnet keyboards.
My question is is my chip fried or is my motherboard or is there something else i can do if you guys think it is just my keyboard module that is gone?? A tricky one, isn't it!
I.E. Shall i pay £30 for replacemtn 478 or should i upgrade the whole lot?
Thanks for your opinions in advanced.
Matt OC

[ExceededGoku]

have you got a serial (PS2) keyboard to connect to your computer? It sounds like you must have accidentally changed the boot order of your hard drive(s) as well...

[moconnell]

both the ones I've tried were ps2 ones. interesting idea bout the boot order as i head two hdds in it. i changed it so only omne was connected and tried both hdds on their own. I can now get into the bios and the keyboard still works, and i reset to the default settings and plugged both hdds back in and it booted into linux. hurry!! shame it's still bleeping away..i can't find a way to turn the damb noise off mut i guess i should ask on an asus forum. I think it might have been that i was not supposed to change the cpu settings without being 'jumper free mode' an d i wasn't. Now if only i can shut those bleeps up.
Thanks for your help anyhow.

[arthurleung]

Well, if you want to remove the beep you can just pull the "speaker" cable from your motherboard.

[moconnell]

looks like thats what i'll have to do. I am still a bit worried that it is really trying to tell me about an error of some sort but i think it probably just a malfunction, at least it's now working a guess. Thanks for your help.