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Long (2 min. beep) during normal startup (GA-8IGX)
Wondering if this is something to worry about: if I restart my computer
after having been powered down for a while (an hour or so) it starts up with a continuous beep - same tone as the POST beep (or at least pretty close), but it continues right through startup, loading WinXP, and stops after about 2 minutes. If I restart from Windows or just power on within a few minutes of powering down this does not happen. I've got a custom built PC with a Gigabyte GA-8IGX Mboard, Intel P4 2.4 GHz 533 MHz FSB processor, 512 MB of DDR PC2100 memory, 400W power supply, and an AIW Radeon 8500 DV video card. I read that this could be memory-related, but the startup RAM check goes OK and I haven't been able to successfully run any other RAM-checking utilities yet. Also strange is the fact that nothing is adversely affected in day-to-day operations on this computer as far as I can tell. Nothing has changed on my system for a long while, and the only other problem I know of is a hard drive with some bad sectors on it (non- system, though) that I can periodically hear clicking as if it's powering off and back on (very rarely - once a day, if that). I'd welcome any ideas - I wonder if the fact that it only happens after being powered down for a while means that it has something to do with a drained battery somewhere (??) although I can't find anything like that in the documentation for the GA-8IGX motherboard. -- UsualNoise |
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UsualNoise wrote:
| Wondering if this is something to worry about: if I restart my | computer after having been powered down for a while (an hour or so) | it starts up with a continuous beep - same tone as the POST beep (or | at least pretty close), but it continues right through startup, | loading WinXP, and stops after about 2 minutes. If I restart from | Windows or just power on within a few minutes of powering down this | does not happen. | | I've got a custom built PC with a Gigabyte GA-8IGX Mboard, Intel P4 | 2.4 GHz 533 MHz FSB processor, 512 MB of DDR PC2100 memory, 400W power | supply, and an AIW Radeon 8500 DV video card. | | I read that this could be memory-related, but the startup RAM check | goes OK and I haven't been able to successfully run any other | RAM-checking utilities yet. Also strange is the fact that nothing is | adversely affected in day-to-day operations on this computer as far | as I can tell. | | Nothing has changed on my system for a long while, and the only other | problem I know of is a hard drive with some bad sectors on it (non- | system, though) that I can periodically hear clicking as if it's | powering off and back on (very rarely - once a day, if that). | | I'd welcome any ideas - I wonder if the fact that it only happens | after being powered down for a while means that it has something to | do with a drained battery somewhere (??) although I can't find | anything like that in the documentation for the GA-8IGX moth _INDICATIONS_ of power supply problems. -- Tampa Bay |
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