One long tone -- suggestions?

[publicradiohead]

Hour 18 just tried my first boot... just the fans, psu, cpu, ram, gpu, monitor and keyboard so far.

I get a constant tooooooooooooooone.

I got a feelin' it bad.

 

[roadrunner197069]

Read your manual to see what the beep means. No one knows what you have, so we cant help.

 

[jsc]

If the tone is constant, and you have an nVidia video card, you may not the aux power connector plugged into it.

Need specs before we can help.

 

[kwanasek]

Is the PC speaker plugged into the correct position on the MOBO?

 

[rallyimprezive]

I had the same thing on my EVGA 750i w/ 8800GTS 512.

And yea, I had forgot to plug the power into the video card. Doh! Scared me for a minute.

 

[pitbulltko]

video card not install correct/ or does not have enough power

 

[rsetter1]

Reseat your Video Card.

 

[publicradiohead]

ep35-ds3r, evga 8800gts 512

will check the video card... I don't think I have any other power feed goin' there.

i do have the small wire marked hd audio connected in the f_audio spot.

thanks for the replies!

 

[jsc]

Look for a six pin cable from the PSU with 3 yellow wires and three black wires.

 

[evongugg]

Some more:

CPU fan not spinning

Jumper on the SATA drive

 

[publicradiohead]

OK -- we figured it out. definitely was the powa to the gpu! on top of that I got this modular psu... had to READ!

but now this:

one single quick beep. all the fans keep spinnin'... still no video.

 

[rsetter1]

MB software installed?

 

[closed_deal]

RAM fitted incorrectly?

http://www.5starsupport.com/info/beep_codes.htm

 

[jsc]

Single short beep means system passed the POwerup Self Test (POST). Memory failure is a continuous series of single three second long beeps - verified by pulling the memory from my DS3-P motherboard. A video interface failure is indicated by a one long and three short beep pattern. Specifically, this means that the motherboard either cannot detect or talk to the video card. You could have an internal video card failure that would not be detected in the POST.

And you cannot install the motherboard software until Windows is loaded.

Is the monitor set up properly? If it is a flat panel, is the proper input selected?

 

[evongugg]

Try clearing the bios.
Is the CPU 4-pin power connection connected?