This is officially my first post here on these forums and I am glad to be here, but it is my woe that this post is not a happy one. :x: I am in a bit of a turmoil right now, as my computer does not turn on I am receiving the BIOS beeping of a long beep followed by two short beeps. According to every source that I have consulted about this code, it means that there is a problem with the video card. I have been using this card for a year now and it has functioned just fine up to this point. Nevertheless, I have reseated it several times to no avail. Next, I tried using a brand new video card and received the same error. I can therefore speculate that my issue isn't with the card, but with another component. I am not sure how to tell whether it is the motherboard or the power supply. I am therefore seeking advice on how to tell. At the time the problem began, I was playing Stepmania, a Dance Dance Revolution computer emulation program. The game itself can be played on very low-end systems with little or no problem, so I would not expect that it would have over-heated anything. During my gameplay, the computer crashed and restarted itself. After the computer restarted itself, it began booting Windows. At the black Windows XP screen with the bar that goes across the screen multiple times until going to the user accounts screen, the computer froze and I was forced to reboot the computer manually. From this point forward, the BIOS began giving the beeps and would not allow the computer to turn on again. I am currently using an Enermax 600W PSU SLI power supply. It has never given me an issue since the day I bought it, nor given me a reason to believe that it was failing. I have connected the video card to the two power connectors with the provided power splitting cable. I have also plugged in the extra SLI video card power cable on the motherboard even though I am not using SLI. Because of these things, I would certainly hope that the power supply is not causing the issue. I am using an Asus A8N-SLI nForce4 Ultra, PCIE Socket 939 Motherboard. When powered up, the power supply led indicator shines green. All fans turn on, including that of the video card. All pieces of my computer, with the exception of the hard drives and cd drives, were purchased at the same time. In case there is use in this information, here is a list of all the parts: Asus A8N-SLI nForce4 Ultra, PCIE Socket 939 Motherboard OCZ 2048MB PC3200 DDR 400MHz EL Platinum (2 x 1024) AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Socket 939 (Manchester) Enermax 600W PSU SLI / Server Ready, PFC eVGA GeForce 7900 GTX 512MB PCIe w/Dual DVI I tested the video problem with a brand new BFG GeForce 7950 GT 512MB PCIe w/Dual DVI/HDTV card as well. I am not sure if this is related, but I was having some trouble with my cd drives recognizing some media prior to the problem. Does anyone have a suggestion as to what could be the issue behind this system failure? Edit: I forgot to include that I have tried resetting the BIOS CMOS as well.
i doubt the cd drives would give you that kind of problem but if you want to take them out of the equation just unplug them and tried seeing if your machine works withouth them plugged in in my opinion it sounds like a motherboard problem you tested many videocards on it that should have solved the problem if you want to make sure is not power supply i believe you can get a power supply tester i bought one for around 13.00 dollars very easy to use and it always come in handy maybe try getting one of those or try testing power supply in another computer if you dont feel like spending money another thing you can do is try leaving just the bare essentials for example if you have 2 hard drives try using just one with os if you got audiocard unplugged it for the moment
I got a reply from the Asus people suggesting that I use the bare essentials and actually take the motherboard out of the case and place it upon a non-conducting surface such as the box that the board came in so that I could test if there was a conductivity problem. After doing so with nothing more than one hard drive and the video card plugged in, I still got the video card BIOS beep code. It is now from my opinion, your opinion, and the opinion of another person from a different forum that the motherboard is the problem. I now have a phone number that I can call to set up an RMA for the board and I will do so on the next day of business. Hopefully, they will find something wrong with it and fix it. I will let you know what happens when it is returned to me.
yeah, sounds like a mobo problem to me[ot]if the problem is with the PCIe slot your system will POST a video problem, as the system tries to tell you what the prolem is (to the best of its ability) problem is with the grfx to identify a POST beep code you need to know which BIOS your system has[/ot]BTW: BIOS beep codes
