Gigabyte S3 - not booting - continuous beep

[SidewinderINC]

Hi all,

woke up this morning to carry on writing my dissertation, due in this friday and found my computer wont boot.

i'm getting a continuous tone from the speaker header, and the same when i take out the graphics card and both sticks of ram. ive tried clearing CMOS with no luck at all.
Kinda in need of fixing this sharpish, on monday at the latest lol. i'm ok for getting the work etc. so its not as if i want to use this as an excuse for my dissertation lol.

i know the silent treatment from this board usually means its dead but this time its making noise at me and i have no idea why.

is it likely to be the mobo or the CPU ?

Ta

Matt

 

[SidewinderINC]

oook, it works again now lol..

had to take the graphics card and ram out.. take the CMOS battery out, put a jumper on the CMOS clear pins for an hour and then re-start it with one stick of ram in.

that was a shocking time this morning lol.


cheers for the help