Beep before post?

Dokinator · 7 May 2011 at 22:53

I didn't know quite where to post this but here will do.

Basically I have noticed recently that when I turn on my PC, sometimes there will be what seems like a long beep (maybe 2 seconds) and then you will get the POST beep. There doesn't seem to be a problem but I am not sure. There must be an explanation for it.
It will happen say 1 in every 10 switch ons and would be nice to know what it is being caused by. Any help or advice would be great.

Thanks in advance.

sk82jack · 7 May 2011 at 22:55

What motherboard have you got?

Dokinator · 7 May 2011 at 22:59

sk82jack said:
What motherboard have you got?

I have a 'Gigabyte GA-770TA-UD3'
I tried to look for the meanings of different beeps in the manual but couldn't find them. I hope you can shed some light on the subject

Stoner81 · 7 May 2011 at 23:11

I can't seem to find anything concrete on this so for now I would suggest pulling out the video card (if present) and only using one stick of RAM and see if there is no beep. The beeps indicate a hardware issue somewhere so it might be a case of eliminating the possibilities one at a time.

Stoner81.

Dokinator · 7 May 2011 at 23:13

Stoner81 said:
I can't seem to find anything concrete on this so for now I would suggest pulling out the video card (if present) and only using one stick of RAM and see if there is no beep. The beeps indicate a hardware issue somewhere so it might be a case of eliminating the possibilities one at a time.

Stoner81.

Cheers for the info, The process of doing that though wont give me a solid culprit because like I said, it happens for say every 1 in 10 switch ons. I will have to figure something out though.

Cheers for your help

sk82jack · 7 May 2011 at 23:21

This is for the rev.1 board.

Buchanan0204 · 7 May 2011 at 23:22

Incase you couldn't read the above.

Dokinator · 7 May 2011 at 23:34

Buchanan0204 said:
Incase you couldn't read the above.

I'm not blind ha
Originally I thought it was one long beep then the POST beep, but reading that image (Emitted during the POST) means it could be 1 long 1 short which means its throwing up a memory/motherboard error.

The question is, why would it be doing this every so often, its playing on my mind now. Hmmmmmmm...

andy_mk3 · 7 May 2011 at 23:36

My gigabyte board does the same, no faults reported, doesn't bother me

Dokinator · 7 May 2011 at 23:37

andy_mk3 said:
My gigabyte board does the same, no faults reported, doesn't bother me

Ahh, its good to see i'm not the only one. And is it a matter of it happening every so often or not?

Cr416 · 7 May 2011 at 23:48

As said, try different configurations with your current set of hardware over a period of about 2 - 4 days and see how it behaves?

Buchanan0204 · 8 May 2011 at 01:56

Have you tried running memtest86+

Dokinator · 8 May 2011 at 10:38

Buchanan0204 said:
Have you tried running memtest86+

No, I will give it a go, cheers

andy_mk3 · 8 May 2011 at 13:03

I just read yours is a long beep, mine's only very short.

You can hear it from 17seconds, I get a very short beep then the normal beep.

Dokinator · 8 May 2011 at 13:25

andy_mk3 said:
I just read yours is a long beep, mine's only very short.

You can hear it from 17seconds, I get a very short beep then the normal beep.

Yeah that is very short. I would record mine but as I have said, it rarely happens. I don't think there is anything to worry about to be honest with mine and your computers. Everything seems to be working fine and no errors are being flagged.

Buchanan0204 said:
Have you tried running memtest86+

Also, I did try this and everything seems to be okay