ABit IP35 Pro Double beep

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I have noticed that occasionally when coming out of standby my motherboard has emitted a wailing double beep of different tones( 1 high 1 low) just like those french ,and early british police sirens, ( you know Daa Daa,Daa Daa) even after rebooting it has persisted but stopped and then given the usual single tone motherboard startup beep. Any suggestions as to what it means? i cant find anything in the MotherBoard manual about these beeps..
thanks in advance..

PS..I Recently updated the graphics drivers for 8800GT from Nvidia and today i got a "Windows advisory" about a potential incompatability problem with my Bios (ver14) and my CPU Q6600. Should i risk a bios update ( i am not that skilled) or live with what i have? I have had no problems for almost 2 yrs so maybe i should leave well alone. Thanks again for any advice guys.. Freddy Bemand

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it's a uguru alarm - go into bios when the alarm is sounding next time and check which of the fan/voltages has gone red/flashing.
I had a ram overvoltage alarm them went off since day one - just disabled it and board was rock solid - but that sound is ingrained on my sole.

If yours has just started to alarm then it's unlikely to be a stuck sensor like mine but a real issue - if it's a fan rmp warning, swap fans around to test or just disable alarm / reduce rpm threashold. If it's a voltage alarm that more of an issue.

Report back when you know more
 
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bios update is easy - download new bios to harddrive, and use updater.
It's safer to use a floppy and dos but never had a bad flash using the abit updater.

DON'T use the auto flash, always download file, then flash - two seprate actions.

Also worth noteing down any oc'ing setting you use as a bios flash will set everything to default - Bios 17 is newest.
and 16&17 have a few useful tweeks (mostly cpu support)
Fixed the Wake Up by WAKE# of PCIe function abnormality
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is most likely the cause of your Windows advisory follow the graphics upgrade
 
Don't use the windows flash tool ... it's been well documented that it's motherboard suicide. That said a number of really good bios suppliers exist now who will flog you a replacment bios with the latest version on it for under a tenner iirc.
 
BUFF said:
it's probably a low fan rpm warning or possibly a voltage warning - there may be a log from uGuru.
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Off topic - has the RaptorPit got a new forum or something? I cant seem to access it?

It's the only place I can find all the old Abit lot.
 
FLASHING THE BIOS

Should i use the Uguru Flash menu to flash the bios? and if so which choice?
One click live update/live update step by step or update from file?
and do i make a back up first? Thanks again..:-)))
 
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