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| Thread ID: 96064 | 2008-12-28 00:38:00 | POST BOOT BEEP BEEP BEEP & MORE BEEPIN! | need2fixit (14449) | Press F1 |
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| 732950 | 2008-12-28 00:38:00 | :confused: Hello everyone. Neighbor upgraded for Christmas gave me page from history.So I thought great! One for the kids keep them away from mine! Installed fresh copy of XP Home reformatted the HD from Windows 98 things went fine.Ran ok for 2 days. Decided to install more ram.Things went down hill from there. Had one stick of PC-133 128mb CL3 installed in Dimm 1 I added one stick of PC-133 256mb CL3 in Dimm 2. Booted it back up then the beepin began in short continous beeps maybe sec or two apart, no change in the tone an I stopped counting after 30. It had one short beep when I booted it up before all this started. It has a red LED light burning on mobo I don,t know if it was on before I installed the new memory or not? It powers up and fan on CPU comes on and fan in back of the case runs. LEDS on drives blinks and stops LED light you boot up with on front comes on and stays on does not blink or act like HD is spinning up? Monitor screen is black can,t see a thing. Does not act like it is completing the full boot. I removed the 256mb put the 128mb back in dimm1reseated the video card tried to reboot got the same short continous beepin. Rotated the 128mb that was in it to all 3 slots and restarted same results.Tried both sticks in all 3 banks in different order same results.Removed them both and still got the same continous short beepin. Returned the 256mb to the store and replaced it for new one.Installed it in Dimm1 and tried booting again an behold!!! it stopped beeping. But still no video and no single short beep? Monitor screen still black. Replaced the monitor with one that works.Booted back up. No beepin an still no video. I replaced the AGP video card with one that was working in another computer and rebooted and it started the same short continous beeping again. I rebooted for the 2nd time an it stopped beepin. But still no single beep or video. I removed all the connections from the back and rebooted. But still did not get one beep or video. Changed keybroad and mouse still no beep or video. Then I removed all ribbons and rebooted and got the same continous short beeps. When I added HD ribbon back I got the same continous short beeps. When I rebooted it the 2nd time it stopped beepin. When I added the ribbon back to the cd-rom started same beepin again until I rebooted a second time then it stopped.When I added the Cd burner back started same beepin again until I rebooted 2 times.When I added back the floppy and rebooted no beepin after the first reboot? And that is where I am at now. When I boot it up now I still do not get a single beep or the continous short beeps. And still have no video. I seen during my research on Press F1 forums about tring to replace or remove the battery on th mobo an I have not tried that yet. I do not have a new one to replace it with right now but would like to try removing it and see if resetting the Bios may correct the problem before I replace the PSU or reseat the CPU. I do not have a 350 watt PSU on hand or heat paste right now. If someone here would be kind enough to educate me on how long to leave it out? Here is the specs. on the mobo and bios from what I have learned about it. If there is any thing else I forgot to list let me know? I would deeply appreciate any information that may help me correct this problem short of replacing the CPU or mobo not worth the money for that!! Thanks guys for your time and any help you maybe able to offer me. It has an Aopen Mobo Model Ak33 Award PNP 2mb Flash Ram Bios An think I seen where they have hooked up with Phoenix? 1.0 AMD Athlon CPU: FSB 200MHz Supports AMD Athlon/Duron Socket A Chipset: VIA KT133 VIA 686B Memory :PC-133 Sdram 256mb CL3 in Dimm1 Max Memory : 1.5GB Super I/O: Integrated in Chipset Clock Gen.: Cypress Graphics: 4X AGP slot |
need2fixit (14449) | ||
| 732951 | 2008-12-28 00:45:00 | Installed fresh copy of XP Home added one stick of PC-133 256mb CL3 in Dimm 2. Booted it back up then the beepin began Returned the 256mb to the store and replaced it for new one. it stopped beeping. But still no video and no single short beep? Monitor screen still black. Replaced the monitor with one that works. I replaced the AGP video card Changed keybroad and mouse And that is where I am at now. When I boot it up now I still do not get a single beep or the continous short beeps. And still have no video. I think you're pushing s*** uphill. Neighbour ditched it for good reason. Its not worth spending money on. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 732952 | 2008-12-28 01:18:00 | strip it back to basics, reset the bios, check jumpers and underclock the cpu/fsb/ram. if nothing after that then proberly PSU or motherboard fault. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 732953 | 2008-12-28 01:25:00 | Have you checked the battery at all? Even tried taking it out for a few minutes and putting it back in to reset the BIOS? A flat battery can cause all sorts of weird problems on some boards, so can wrong/corrupted BIOS settings. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 732954 | 2008-12-28 04:45:00 | Thanks for the info guys! I could not agree with you more PCTek that is why I am trying to find out how long to pull the battery out to reset the bios? I have not attemped that yet, I was not sure on the time to leave it out? That an if I can find a working PSU is far as my dollar will take me after the Christmas Holiday !! | need2fixit (14449) | ||
| 732955 | 2008-12-28 05:05:00 | Shouldn't need to take the battery out for more than a few minutes, but if you want to be sure then leave it out overnight. If you've got a voltmeter of some kind you should test the battery, see if it's OK. Anything under 2.9v and you should probably junk it, get a new one. CR2032 - they're available everywhere, very cheap. Other thing I can think of for something of that age is capacitor failure. Not unlikely and could easily cause the problems you're having. www.badcaps.net has some good photographic examples of the problem if you want to check it out |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 732956 | 2008-12-28 08:47:00 | If you need stuff for older comps try your local recycling centre, I recently picked up a 10/100 network card PCI and a win 98 boot disk for $3 both work well, the network card I put into an old P3 machine that I'm going to run Puppy Linux on | gary67 (56) | ||
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