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Hi,
I've a Gigabyte 8VM533M motherboard with an P4 2.0 GHz, 256 MB
DDRAM, integrated ProSavageDDR graphics and a Barracuda 80 GB HDD. The
system was working fine for the first 5-6 months since I bought it -
suddenly on a reboot one day it refused to boot up. There's one long
beep followed by two short beeps - consulting the manual I found it
referred to a video/monitor error. However if I remove the harddrive
and the floppy drive the beeps are short and continuous. Also, after
the 1 long, 2 short beeps, there's a n odd scratching noise (like
radio static) on the pc speaker. Is it a graphics error or something
else? Has anybody faced the same problem?

Thanks in advance
~talonx

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Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.gigabyte (More info?)

Hey there,

I had a very similar problem with a 915E Pro motherboard. The AGP slot
was toasted as
a 5 dollar pci 2 meg video card was able to help boot the system.
Unfortunately for me, the processor also went (similar buzzing and
weird noises similar to yours) and the Athlon 1200 is now an ultra
small cup coaster. If you don't have one, get a cheapo used pci vid
card and use it to troubleshoot this and any AGP problems you might
have in the future.

The beeps you describe are exactly what you hear when the AGP card is
out of alignment (meaning all of the gold pins aren't making solid
contact with the slot).

Jman

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