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A7V8X-X making two short beeps and having startup issues
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My A7V8X-X is making two short beeps while running, repeatedly, like this: beep beep (15 to 20 seconds) beep beep (15 to 20 seconds) beep beep .......... Asus Probe shows temperatures all cool (70° F for mobo, 90° for processor) and all voltages nominal. This system also has one other quirk: on a cold startup it always fails the first time. I shut it off. Then restart, and I'm in the BIOS, with it telling me that I had the processor speed set wrong. But I didn't. Thoughts ? thanks Stan |
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It will do this is you are running Win98SE power saver settings to turn off
hard drives after x minutes. The fix for me was to disable that feature in Win98. I don't know if MS fixed that in XP. My XP box has the feature disabled as well. ed "Stanley Krute" wrote in message ... Hi My A7V8X-X is making two short beeps while running, repeatedly, like this: beep beep (15 to 20 seconds) beep beep (15 to 20 seconds) beep beep .......... Asus Probe shows temperatures all cool (70° F for mobo, 90° for processor) and all voltages nominal. This system also has one other quirk: on a cold startup it always fails the first time. I shut it off. Then restart, and I'm in the BIOS, with it telling me that I had the processor speed set wrong. But I didn't. Thoughts ? thanks Stan |
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Although I couldn't find a specific listing of award beep codes, in general
repetitive beeps would tend to indicate bad memory. Try another stick if you can. "Stanley Krute" wrote in message ... Hi My A7V8X-X is making two short beeps while running, repeatedly, like this: beep beep (15 to 20 seconds) beep beep (15 to 20 seconds) beep beep .......... Asus Probe shows temperatures all cool (70° F for mobo, 90° for processor) and all voltages nominal. This system also has one other quirk: on a cold startup it always fails the first time. I shut it off. Then restart, and I'm in the BIOS, with it telling me that I had the processor speed set wrong. But I didn't. Thoughts ? thanks Stan |
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Hi Ed
It will do this is you are running Win98SE power saver settings to turn off hard drives after x minutes. The fix for me was to disable that feature in Win98. I don't know if MS fixed that in XP. My XP box has the feature disabled as well. I'm running XP, but have that, and all other power-saving khuzzerai turned off. Thanks for the thought. Stan |
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Hi Mike
Although I couldn't find a specific listing of award beep codes, in general repetitive beeps would tend to indicate bad memory. Try another stick if you can. I found some Award beep codes he http://bioscentral.com/beepcodes/awardbeep.htm No mention of two short beeps. I found some AMI beep codes he http://bioscentral.com/beepcodes/amibeep.htm and they DO mention two short beeps as indicating memory problems. This motherboard has had memory problems all along ... in earlier posts, I mentioned how it had troubles with 1.5 GB, and so I've been running it at 1 GB .... perhaps the mobo is faulty .... the startup issue, with the spurious speed warning, may be another indicator of board problems .... hmmm ..... I'll play with memory sticks and report back ... Thanks Mike. Stan |
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On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 05:00:13 GMT, "Stanley Krute"
wrote: Hi Mike Although I couldn't find a specific listing of award beep codes, in general repetitive beeps would tend to indicate bad memory. Try another stick if you can. I found some Award beep codes he http://bioscentral.com/beepcodes/awardbeep.htm No mention of two short beeps. I found some AMI beep codes he http://bioscentral.com/beepcodes/amibeep.htm and they DO mention two short beeps as indicating memory problems. This motherboard has had memory problems all along ... in earlier posts, I mentioned how it had troubles with 1.5 GB, and so I've been running it at 1 GB .... perhaps the mobo is faulty .... the startup issue, with the spurious speed warning, may be another indicator of board problems .... hmmm ..... I'll play with memory sticks and report back ... Kind of funny that it would boot if memory was failing. Do you have any other problems , like lots of crashing ? Thanks Mike. Stan |
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