Hi All,
Just upgraded machine to include an asus a7v600, amd2500+, geforce fx5600 and 512mb 3200 crucial memory. Everything appears to be fine except when I try and fdisk a new drive (which works fine in all other machines) or run a scandisk in dos or even when restarting form windows me.
I get 3 quick beeps and the video goes off. I have tried a different psu but still the same.
Anyone have any ideas?


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Yuk! Whether or not it's the cause I'd start by ditching WinME.
If you get beeps on startup it's usually down to PSU, CPU, RAM, mobo or gfx card. 3 beeps is gfx card IIRC but it may vary by mobo. You should take out all non-essential hw to find the culprit. It can often be something as simple as the PCI card(s) aren't quite pushed in far enough.
I'd suggest setting AGP8x back to AGP4x, 2x or disabled as VIA are known to have quirky AGP implimentation at 8x, perf diff is virtually ZERO. Are the PSUs you tried all 350W+ and preferably a good brand name? Everything is running stock right? Have you checked the HSF is attatched properly and that only a tiny amount of compound is used? Can you try each of your key components in another PC?
Be sure to you end up with 1GB not 1MB of RAM! I would suggest going for a 512MB stick of PC3200 (DDR400 / 400mhz) from a diff manu to the existing stick, not that Crucial are bad (they are fantastic) but it is known sometimes one brand of PC3200 simply refuses to work with one type of mobo or another. When most PC3200 RAM and mobos came out the spec was still unfinished, that probably causes much of the problem. You should be able to send the Crucial stick back, esp if you used their Memory Selector. Their cust support is top notch, maybe mail them about things.
WinXP should be way better over the Internet ... maybe it's driver related?
