beeps and stuff

[slothmeister]

hi guys, well i fianlly had the chance to try and build this system again with the new mboard. I've even enlisted the help of a friend, now at least i'm getting some beeps with it, although i don't seem to hear any when the graphics card is installed.

So without the graphics card i get 1 long beep followed by 3 short beeps, then shortly after i get 1 more beep, at the moment the cpu and heatsink is installed, 1 stick of ram, and that's it.

please help, it's been nearly two weeks since i've had this thing and i have not once seen this thing's BIOS!?!?!

 

[semi-pro waster]

You could try taking a look at bioscentral.com for the beep codes but I think that sequence normally means the graphics card is not being recognised so try reseating it, if that fails then you may have either a dodgy graphics card or dodgy PCI-E slot.

 

[slothmeister]

but what about when the graphics card is in place, i get no beeps then! also i thought that 1 long and 3 short meant a dodgy graphics card, if so what do the 3 and sometimes just 2 quick beeps mean afterwards?