2 beeps then Auto Restart

martin9887 · 7 Feb 2007 at 22:28

I was just playing BF2142 and I got 2 beeps from pc and then it restarted, Im abit worried this may turn to a serious problem, any ideas as to what caused this? any help welcome.

Spcs are: evga 680i, 2gb pc6400 dominator, bfg 8800gtx, e600.

Thanks.

EDIT: Upon restarting BF2142 it has reset all the settings, controls, sound, graphics settings etc, may have been 2142 playing up then?

Hades · 7 Feb 2007 at 23:50

Found this on the intarweb:

No Beeps Short, No power, Bad CPU/MB, Loose Peripherals
One Beep Everything is normal and Computer POSTed fine
Two Beeps POST/CMOS Error
One Long Beep, One Short Beep Motherboard Problem
One Long Beep, Two Short Beeps Video Problem
One Long Beep, Three Short Beeps Video Problem
Three Long Beeps Keyboard Error
Repeated Long Beeps Memory Error
Continuous Hi-Lo Beeps CPU Overheating

So it could be a post or cmos error? But that doesn't sound right unless it happened at boot. So could it have been your overheating warning and automatic shutdown instead?

mishima · 7 Feb 2007 at 23:55

Hades said:
So could it have been your overheating warning and automatic shutdown instead?

I was thinking the same thing, perhaps GPU or CPU is overheating and causing the reboot? Check temps @ full load.

martin9887 · 8 Feb 2007 at 01:43

Was my 1st guess at overheating, Il monitor the temps and see what they rise to. It posted fine after it restarted.

fumbles · 8 Feb 2007 at 05:59

Hades said:
Found this on the intarweb:

POST beeps vary on what BIOS you have (Phoenix, AMI, Award)

I would back it is a power supply problem. What PSU are you using?

martin9887 · 8 Feb 2007 at 11:27

My PSU is 800watt BFG one, if it is this it sucks as its very new :mad:

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mattpj · 8 Feb 2007 at 11:33

Unlikely to be PSU at this point, but I would recommned looking in your BIOS at the temps after a restart happens as I had this problem with an old P4HT 3.6 and would crash all day long.. far far too hot it was!

fumbles · 9 Feb 2007 at 00:25

Check to see if your HSF is mounted properly... Run something like folding or superpi to get your CPU to 100% monitor the temps.

Make sure you have the latest drivers for your video card. Then get a copy (the free version) of 3Dmark (any is fine) then monitor the temps again.

Other then that I'd do a memtest!

My theory with the power supply was that the system was taking too much power then supplied under full load and thus shutting down. But considering an 800w psu is a lot more then you need it should be alright (not that its a bad thing).

martin9887 · 9 Feb 2007 at 00:39

Il do some later, not had chance yet, seems fine though, no other alarms or anything.