Help anyone -Unknown BIOS Beep

[5hade]

Hey All.

I hav a system with an Abit IC7, P4 2.8, Radeon 9800 Pro and 1.5GB of Corsair Memory. All working fine for 3 years until this afternoon.

System crashed and now will not power up. On boot I get a long 5 second Beep, a pause and then another 5 second beep. This repeats continuously.

Done all the usual, removed and re-seated VGA Card, Mem etc but cant get passed it. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

 

[Wgfalcon]

remove your ram and try to boot if you get the same error thats your problem if it's, a different error the reinstall your ram and remove your vid card and try again most probably it will be one or the other

 

[z0sense]

Try clearing the CMOS with the jumper.

If you are running 2 or more sticks of RAM, you can try one at the time.

I would suggest inserting one stick, and if you still get a beep, remove it and switch to the other. (assuming you have more then one.)

It is unlikely both sticks failed, so if you still have a problem after trying them one at a time, you may have eliminated one possibility.