nothing major, all went quite well for my 1st "new" mobo installation. (a mid range system) - XP 2500+ 2x512mb Corsair pc2700 DDR DVD 16x CD-RW 32x XP Pro 2x80gb WD HHD's 7200rpm Radeon 9600XT 128mb The PC speaker (the 1 that makes the bios beeps) is really annoying in that it use's the speaker to beep when ever a information or warning or question box comes up using windows, please tell me how to fix it as its incredibly annoying. also ive checked my monitor and its fine and working brilliantly, however whenever either windows restarts due to new hardware, software or if i manually reboot even via the button the monitor turns itself off (from green light to orange) and stays there as if its in hibernation. now i've checked the power management settings in windows and everything is fine in there, any ideas? e.g: i shutdown the pc turn the pc on monitor doesnt receive a signal on 2nd pc boot up again (after a hard shutdown via rocker switch) monitor works anyhelp wld be much appreciated thanks tom
It'll do that beeping until you install your sound card drivers. Try a different video card and see if it's the monitor or the card, and make sure the Initial display is set for an AGP card instead of PCI (in BIOS, consult your manual for location). Also, hit up Widows Update and look for some updates regarding hibernation (as well as your critical updates).
Make sure the video card is properly seated in the AGP slot, and that the retention clip (if it has one) is holding the video card in place properly. It more than likely is in place properly if it always works the second time, but it doesn't hurt to check. Also, you didn't list the MoBo you have. Does it have integrated video? If so, you need to set your AGP slot as the first display. Regarding the PC-speaker noises coming through the sound card and out through your speakers, there is a way to permanently disable it in Windows. Go get XTeq Setup. It's a free Win32 tweaker that will allow you to optimize the memory usage in XP to the amount you actually have, turn off useless and annoying features, and yes, disable the PC-speaker beeps.
