Fast beep after installing 5670 in old Dell 4700.

[mcnoober]

I purchased a new 5670 sapphire graphics card for my Dell 4700 and it beeped on startup. I put the old car back in and it did the same thing. If I take the video card out it will beep once slow, then 3 times fast, then beep two more times fast, then it will just rapidly beep. I looked up the Dell trouble codes and didn't see any beep codes like this.

I'm thinking the motherboard is fried. Anyone have a different idea?

 

[The Halo Don]

When it beeps, it means something didnt install right, happened to me with when I installed new RAM, so just make sure the you installed it tight.

 

[jaguarskx]

Do you have the user manual? It should tell you what those beeps mean.

 

[doped]

i once poked around with a graphics card update, and it did some beep codes, i looked 'em up, and it just said general hardware failure. Then I was annoyed that i had been too rough with it and cracked my motherboard, i thought to myself. But i reseated the RAM, and all were fine. apparently, it was flexing a little, and the ram wasn't happy. Most of the time when a computer has been beeping on me, it's been the RAM.

Conclusion, Try reseating the RAM when reseating the component you are trying to get working, doesn't work.

 

[nebun]

could be that the device is not receiving enough voltage...try to see if one of your friends has a 600w+ power supple to test and see if it works

 

[mcnoober]

could be that the device is not receiving enough voltage...try to see if one of your friends has a 600w+ power supple to test and see if it works

That sounds like a good solution, but the old video card wouldn't even work, thats been in there for like 5 years already.