Beep, Beep, Beep....

[Karl|Neo]

Hi, I'm just building a PC for a friend and, yep, you've guessed it, it's beeping at me. It's an Abit AN7 Mobo with a Thermalright SP-97 heatsink and a 3200 Barton. The sound it makes is a continuous sequence of one high beep thewn one low beep. N e ideas guys? Thanx alot.

Meh.

[Shogun]

Sounds like temperature. Make sure its seated properly on the chip.

[Karl|Neo]

Yeah I thought that too, except ive already taken the heatsink off and put it back on again, as well as the fact the heatsink won't go any other way.

[Shogun]

What thermal paste you using?

[CrapshoT]

Beep Codes for ABIT AWARD BIOS Motherboards
One long beep then machine shuts down - faulty, improperly installed or missing CPU
1 short(Beep) System booting is normally
2 short(Beep) CMOS setting error
1 long - 1 short(Beep) DRAM ERROR
1 long - 2 short(Beep) Display card or monitor connected error
1 long - 3 short(Beep) Keyboard Error
1 long - 9 short(Beep) ROM Error
Long(Beep) continuous DRAM isn't inserted correctly
Short(Beep) continuous POWER supply has a problem
A two-tone siren, generally caused by overheating or out of specification voltages
Four beeps then machine shuts down. This is because this version of the BIOS will shut down your machine if no fan tachometer signal is detected on the fan header. Make sure you attach a fan to the FAN1 or FAN4 header or clear CMOS to reset to default (no checking).
By the codes it sounds like your ram or you havent seated the hs properly

[Shogun]

Beep Codes for ABIT AWARD BIOS Motherboards
One long beep then machine shuts down - faulty, improperly installed or missing CPU
1 short(Beep) System booting is normally
2 short(Beep) CMOS setting error
1 long - 1 short(Beep) DRAM ERROR
1 long - 2 short(Beep) Display card or monitor connected error
1 long - 3 short(Beep) Keyboard Error
1 long - 9 short(Beep) ROM Error
Long(Beep) continuous DRAM isn't inserted correctly
Short(Beep) continuous POWER supply has a problem
A two-tone siren, generally caused by overheating or out of specification voltages
Four beeps then machine shuts down. This is because this version of the BIOS will shut down your machine if no fan tachometer signal is detected on the fan header. Make sure you attach a fan to the FAN1 or FAN4 header or clear CMOS to reset to default (no checking).
By the codes it sounds like your ram or you havent seated the hs properly

Lets hope you haven't seated the h/s properly.

[Flash]

Lets hope you haven't seated the h/s properly.

or back to front

[SilentDeath]

take the heatsink off and look at the base, you should see where there was contact as there will be thermal paste left on it.

[Karl|Neo]

Yeah theres contact definately, aswell as the fact the heat sink wont go on any other way. I'm using the thermal paste that came with the heatsink. And yes, it's a two tone beep, I'll try and reset the CMOS to see if that help, other wise I'm running out of ideas

[SilentDeath]

My brother was having this problem with his board when he got it about 6 months ago. He reseated the heatsink about 10 times then it worked.