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Is 1-long 2-short beeps always indicate the vid-card?
With an Award BIOS ( Asus A8N-E) I understand
that the beep code: 1-long and 2-short beeps during the start of post means that an error couldn't be displayed because the video isn't available. Any other than the vid-card problem that is likely to be the cause? It makes sense that it could be something else, but wouldn't it have it's own code, like one for the memory or CPU fault? My HTPC just quit, with no real symptoms and gives me that beep code on startup now with no video,or keyboard startup. Vid-card = ATI X1600Pro PCIE 512M I don't have a spare PCIE vid-card on hand, so I'll have to swap one out of another working system, to isolate the problem. Thought it might be worth checking if anyone had run across this sort of thing. Luck; Ken |
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Is 1-long 2-short beeps always indicate the vid-card?
"Ken Maltby" wrote in message ... With an Award BIOS ( Asus A8N-E) I understand that the beep code: 1-long and 2-short beeps during the start of post means that an error couldn't be displayed because the video isn't available. Any other than the vid-card problem that is likely to be the cause? It makes sense that it could be something else, but wouldn't it have it's own code, like one for the memory or CPU fault? My HTPC just quit, with no real symptoms and gives me that beep code on startup now with no video,or keyboard startup. Vid-card = ATI X1600Pro PCIE 512M I don't have a spare PCIE vid-card on hand, so I'll have to swap one out of another working system, to isolate the problem. Thought it might be worth checking if anyone had run across this sort of thing. Luck; Ken The few places that I've searched say that is a video error. Just google "award beep codes". |
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Is 1-long 2-short beeps always indicate the vid-card?
With an Award BIOS ( Asus A8N-E) I understand
that the beep code: 1-long and 2-short beeps during the start of post means that an error couldn't be displayed because the video isn't available. Unplug and re-plug in the card Does the card require its own supply? On my Asus M2N-E, I need to re-seat the modem card every time I reseat the Radeon 4850 or the system would refuse to boot. -- @~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (Xubuntu 8.04.1) Linux 2.6.26.2 ^ ^ 10:53:01 up 20 days 19:05 3 users load average: 1.02 1.07 1.13 ? ? (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...ub_addressesa/ |
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Is 1-long 2-short beeps always indicate the vid-card?
"Man-wai Chang ToDie (33.6k)" wrote in message ... With an Award BIOS ( Asus A8N-E) I understand that the beep code: 1-long and 2-short beeps during the start of post means that an error couldn't be displayed because the video isn't available. Unplug and re-plug in the card No joy after three or four tries. Does the card require its own supply? No it doesn't. On my Asus M2N-E, I need to re-seat the modem card every time I reseat the Radeon 4850 or the system would refuse to boot. -- @~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (Xubuntu 8.04.1) Linux 2.6.26.2 ^ ^ 10:53:01 up 20 days 19:05 3 users load average: 1.02 1.07 1.13 ? ? (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...ub_addressesa/ |
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Is 1-long 2-short beeps always indicate the vid-card?
"KCB" wrote in message . .. "Ken Maltby" wrote in message ... With an Award BIOS ( Asus A8N-E) I understand that the beep code: 1-long and 2-short beeps during the start of post means that an error couldn't be displayed because the video isn't available. Any other than the vid-card problem that is likely to be the cause? It makes sense that it could be something else, but wouldn't it have it's own code, like one for the memory or CPU fault? My HTPC just quit, with no real symptoms and gives me that beep code on startup now with no video,or keyboard startup. Vid-card = ATI X1600Pro PCIE 512M I don't have a spare PCIE vid-card on hand, so I'll have to swap one out of another working system, to isolate the problem. Thought it might be worth checking if anyone had run across this sort of thing. Luck; Ken The few places that I've searched say that is a video error. Just google "award beep codes". Right, but I'm not sure that equals a problem with the video card. It might mean there was an error caused by a fault on the MB that prevents the video from reaching the video card. Luck; Ken |
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Is 1-long 2-short beeps always indicate the vid-card?
Then maybe your VGA card has cooked itself because of poor ventilation. Do you have a spare display card? -- @~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (Xubuntu 8.04.1) Linux 2.6.26.2 ^ ^ 16:49:01 up 21 days 1:01 3 users load average: 1.00 1.00 1.00 ? ? (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...ub_addressesa/ |
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Is 1-long 2-short beeps always indicate the vid-card?
"Ken Maltby" wrote in message ... With an Award BIOS ( Asus A8N-E) I understand that the beep code: 1-long and 2-short beeps during the start of post means that an error couldn't be displayed because the video isn't available. Any other than the vid-card problem that is likely to be the cause? It makes sense that it could be something else, but wouldn't it have it's own code, like one for the memory or CPU fault? My HTPC just quit, with no real symptoms and gives me that beep code on startup now with no video,or keyboard startup. Vid-card = ATI X1600Pro PCIE 512M I don't have a spare PCIE vid-card on hand, so I'll have to swap one out of another working system, to isolate the problem. Thought it might be worth checking if anyone had run across this sort of thing. Luck; Ken Ok, swapped out the Video Card and it worked fine in another A8N-E. Returned it to the original A8N-E (my HTPC), and tried running on one of my memory sticks (a matched pair of Corsair XMS Platinum Series XMS3200 1024MB 400Hz). It looks like one of them is bad, or at least I only have the problem when a particular stick of the pair is being used. So to answer my own question: No, the Award beep code 1-long 2-short can mean something else is wrong besides the video card. ( Maybe that should be "before" the video card.) I'll test the "bad" stick in another system, using a test program, just in case. Well, it looks like I'll need to get another stick, to get my second gig and dual channel back. In the mean time the HTPC functions and media server functions seem to be working fine on 1GB single channel. Thanks to all. Luck; Ken |
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