Beep Beep - This cannot be good

[roamdog]

I am NOT an expert builder, but am not afraid to give stuff a try if I can find good directions.
Am building from scratch (so will eventually have to load an OS also--which may be a challenge as I am familiar with upgrading an OS but have never had any success loading from scratch). Specs are listed below.
Have all the hardware hooked up. But perhaps not hooked up correctly?
When I turn the system on, it immediately starts beeping. 2 short beeps over and over. After a few seconds there is a single slightly different beep (that sounds like the standard beep I get on my computer that is working) intermixed with the two beeps and the two beeps just keep going. The BIOS startup message is displayed and the memory starts to count. The two beeps never go away? Since I do not have an OS loaded yet, I cannot do anything except go into the BIOS setup (which I can do).
What did I do wrong and how do I get rid of the beep beep?




Motherboard: MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum w/ Phoenix Award BIOS
CPU: AMD ADA3800DAA4BW AMD Athlon 64 3800+ Venice 2.4GHz Socket 939 89W Single-Core
HsF for the CPU: Cooler Master RR-CCH-L9U1-GP Hyper TX2 92mm
Memory bank 00 A+B: OCZ OCZ4002048ELDCPE-K Platinum 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel Kit
Memory bank 01 A+B: Corsair VS2GBKIT400C3 Value Select 2GB (2 X 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel Kit, Lifetime Warranty
Video card 01: Asus EAH3850/G/HTDI/512M ATI Radeon HD3850 515MB 2DVI/HDCP PCI_Express
Video card hsf 01: Asus (just whatever the stock fan on the card is)
Hard drive 01: Seagate ST3400633AS-RK Barracuda 7200.9 400GB SATA
Hard drive 02: Seagate ST3500641A-RK Barracuda 7200.9 500GB PATA
Hard drive 03: Seagate ST3160023A-RK Barracuda 7200.7 160GB PATA
Optical drive 01: NEC ND-3520A
Optical drive 02: NEC ND-3520A
Power supply: MadDog MD600SCPS 600W
Case: Antec SX1040BII
Front case fan top: Scythe SA0825FDB12l KAMA FLEX 80mm
Front case fan bottom: Rosewill RFA-80-BL 80mm 4 Blue LEDs
Rear case fan top: Antec (just whatever the stock fan in the case is)
Rear case fan bottom: Antec (just whatever the stock fan in the case is)
Monitor 01: Dell 2001FP UltraSharp 20 inch LCD Monitor
Operating System: MS XP
Mouse: generic generic generic PS2
Keyboard: generic generic generic PS2
Audio card: Creative Audigy2ZS Sound Blaster
Speakers: Logitech X-240 2.1
Aux IDE controller: Rosewill RC-200 PCI IDE (ATA) Silicon Image RAID (0/1/0+1/JBOD) Host Controller Card
Drive bay cooling: Cooler Master LHD-V04 CoolDrive 4

 

[Jim_L9]

Do a minimum hardware configuration to test it. E.g., on memory stick, one hard drive, one optical drive...

 

[altazi]

According to MSI's website, the Award BIOS gives one long beep and two short beeps to indicate a video problem, and any other combination of beeps to indicate a memory problem.

Try stripping your system down to the bare minimum - PSU, mobo, CPU w/HSF, ONE stick of RAM, video card, and keyboard. Make sure you have all of the PSU connections to the mobo correct, especially the 4/8-pin +12V CPU power connector. Try powering up your system and see what happens. If you achieve success, try adding the components back in one at a time.

If you have problems, try taking the mobo out of the case and placing it on a NONCONDUCTING surface, like cardboard or newspaper; this is in case the mobo has a trace being shorted to ground via a standoff or mounting screw.

Report back with updated status. Good luck.

 

[dallasjoh]

First off your mixing memory. The OCZ is CL2 @ 2.6v and the Corsair is CL3 @ 2.5v. I would try booting up with just one set. Either the OCZ or Corsair. If that does not work then start out with just the basics; cpu, 1 stick memory, video card and if it boots up with no constant beeps then shut down and add another stick of memory etc; etc;

 

[dallasjoh]

^+1 Altazi you beat me to it. Look at his memory spec's.

 

[roamdog]

OK. Took out all the memory. Then, one by one, tried each individual stick by itself in each and every DIMM slot (one after another). All failed. Still getting beep beep with a single stick of RAM.

 

[dallasjoh]

Take the MB out of the case and build on a large phone book or cardboard and connect only the MB, PSU, CPU & HSF, 1 Ram and video card. You can cross the two power switch pins with a small screwdriver or ink pen tip to start it up. Let us know with an update.

 

[jeep11]

It looks like its not a RAM problem. Hmm do you have another 939 processor from another build. I'd try that.