Constant BIOS Beep Warning., WTF?.

[Breaks]

Hello all.

When I switched my computer on for the first time this morning after having used it all night for a good solid 13 hours, my computer was giving me 2 long continious bios beeps. The first beep sounds even before my monitor is displaying any bios information, then during POST the second beep sounds and stays continious up until I'm at the login screen for Windows XP Pro (Computer specification located within my signature).

I referred to my manual to see what the 2 continious beeps meant and according to that its a 'Continious Long Beeps: DRAM Error'. However I searched online a moment a go and when searching google I came across a website that said continious long beeps can mean either memory or video issues. When I first installed the graphics drivers yesterday along with the .net framework version 3.0, upon restarting after the install the ATi support folder popped up as it does sometimes when you install new software and restart. I restarted a few times since then and it constantly keeps popping up. If there was a problem with the graphics drivers it wouldn't beep so soon even before post would it?

When going through POST and seeing all of the hardware being detected I'm being given no warning or reading of the fault during this stage or at all during boot.

Any suggestions / comments would be greatly appreciated.

Best regards,

Breaks.

 

[Zimbob]

Dude I’m gutted for you

As for fixing the problem I can only suggest a process of elimination.

I recently experienced a similar motherboard bleep error and to find out what was going wrong I removed all the cards and left just one stick of memory in it to boot up from, I then installed the components one at a time until I encountered the same irritating "bleep" problem, for what its worth the culprit was a new piece of RAM I purchased (not from OcUK).

I Also choose different slots for the cards and memory as apparently if these have stop working correctly they can generate a similar error.

Do you have another computer you can test the memory/graphics cards in?

A mate of mine once had a hard drive that stopped working and it generated a beep error message.

Trial and error dude

 

[IAmATeaf]

What so it continues to beep but boots up, never heard of that before unless the power connector on the vid card has somehow come off. Check all the connections again and make sure they are all secure.