3 Beeps, Pause, and Repeat ?

[MonteMan]

Anyone know what this means just making a computer out of spare parts... I power it up and it has BEEP-BEEP-BEEP <Pause> BEEP-BEEP-BEEP etc. I thought last time I hade this problem it was keyboard but I guess not ne ideas ?

 

[Jeff68005]

I'm just checklisting based on my experiences.

Check if PowerSupply, videocard, memory and processor are properly seated. Try just one stick of memory in case there is a conflict of memory types.
Check for short post that the MB is mounted on . Possible electrical short?
Are there any memory slots not in use? Which one? If so, some systems require DIMM1 be used or that may happen.

There are beep codes on the web and on some board manuals. I'm afraid, I lost that link when I upgraded a couple of times back. However I did find some beep codes on Google Search. What bios are you running? I don't know if the beep codes are universal. Award and Phoenix BIOS companies marged, but I don't know when that happened or if the codes were differnet when your BIOS was built.

http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardwarecentral/tutorials/13/3/

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Here is an article on beep codes that looks promising:

http://www.pcguide.com/ts/x/sys/beep/index.htm

It says AMI BIOS - 3 Beeps: Base 64K RAM failure

Explanation: There is a failure of some sort within the first 64 KB of system memory

http://avenir.dhs.org/windows/hardware/beepcodes.html




Every working computer must be improved .... or replaced ...

 

[aznbeso]

If it's AMIBios it means your RAM has problems or is not inserted correctly or cannot be read.

 

[Zowwie]

Heya MonteMan,

Here is a thread I thought my help you.
<A HREF="http://www.motherboards.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2144" target="_new">http://www.motherboards.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2144</A>

Hope it does,

Zowwie

<b>Zowwie</b>

 

[ZeuSueZ]

What kind of MB/CPU/Ram is it - it would help the search process alot =)

Real men don't do backup...
...real men cry ALOT!

Linux RoxX

 

[PCcashCow]

Open up the case take you all your cards except video ram, dicconect the hdds (pwer too) cd rom etc. If you have more than one stick of ram in then only leave one in but reset the one you have in (bank 0) , (mainly the one you know is good. Then boot up
See if you get any erros (make sure your keyboard is connected)

If you boot into a bios ok then start inserting everything one by one.

If you still get the beeps have a look at your power supply and make sure there are no extra ground post behind your mobo causing a short.

-Tim

It seems that every time I reboot my wallet gets smaller.