HELP!! just built a pc and it keeps beeping!

scottyboy · 15 Aug 2007 at 22:05

its looks a bit messy. dunno how u guys keep everything so neat.

anyway when I turn it on it beeps twice continuously with 1 second pauses...like beep beep.......beep beep.... etc etc whats that about?!? Its not the bios beeps, it gets past that and I can get into windows if I wanted to (if I had it installed). I also checked in bios to see if I needed to disable the fan warnings, but they are all disabled anyway.

I dont have any of the fans (inc the Tuniq tower fan) connected to the motherboard, they are all connected to the Zalman fan controller (which is connected to the psu). All the fans are working though, although I did change one down to 60rpm on the controller and it made no difference to its spinning..

Any ideas what this beeping is about?

croni486 · 15 Aug 2007 at 22:11

Do you have an intrusion alarm on the side of the case that may be setting the alarm off

alphaomega16 · 15 Aug 2007 at 22:11

Cant help you out with the beeping, just had to know WTF is that monster next to the fan ???

Surely a brick would have been cheaper to stick there :eek:

croni486 · 15 Aug 2007 at 22:14

What board is it?

It's ok, I managed to see it on the board

scottyboy · 15 Aug 2007 at 22:15

croni486 said:
Do you have an intrusion alarm on the side of the case that may be setting the alarm off

no not that i know off anyway.

RJC · 15 Aug 2007 at 22:15

The beeping starts soon as you turn on the PC!, beeps you state do sound like BIOS beeps, do you have any operating installed or you just finished building and started the PC.

Try clearing the BIOS, if that does not work remove your sound card and 1 Stick of memory.

Rob

scottyboy · 15 Aug 2007 at 22:16

croni486 said:
What board is it?

Gigabyte GA_P35_DS4

hybrid · 15 Aug 2007 at 22:17

http://www.bioscentral.com/beepcodes/awardbeep.htm

scottyboy · 15 Aug 2007 at 22:18

RJC said:
The beeping starts soon as you turn on the PC!, beeps you state do sound like BIOS beeps, do you have any operating installed or you just finished building and started the PC.

Try clearing the BIOS, if that does not work remove your sound card and 1 Stick of memory.

Rob

I dont have anything installed and the hdd has been formatted. Its all new, i dont think clearing the bios will help. i will try removing the soundcard and 1 stick of mem..

scottyboy · 15 Aug 2007 at 22:21

RJC said:
if that does not work remove your sound card and 1 Stick of memory.
Rob

that doesnt work either

scottyboy · 15 Aug 2007 at 22:44

any other ideas? i dont know what to try..

croni486 · 15 Aug 2007 at 22:44

2 short beeps according to your manual is a CMOS setting error. Have you gone into the bios and loaded "fail safe defaults".

thefishdude · 15 Aug 2007 at 22:55

as you dont have the cpu fan on the cpu header is it some sort of warning beep cause it thinks cpu fan up the duff lol

TheSwede · 15 Aug 2007 at 22:56

I am getting the same double beeps also.. checked my mobo manual and it said as you told us, croni, CMOS setting error, tried loading "fail safe defaults", but that did not work.. :confused:

Any other suggestions?

I am using a Gigabyte GA_P35C_DS3R mobo..

Cheers
Tom

TheSwede · 15 Aug 2007 at 22:57

thefishdude said:
as you dont have the cpu fan on the cpu header is it some sort of warning beep cause it thinks cpu fan up the duff lol

I have my CPU fan connected to the CPU_FAN connector on the mobo, and still getting the 2 beeps..

Cheers
Tom

croni486 · 15 Aug 2007 at 23:00

When the fail safe default are loaded the CPU/system fan warning should have been set to disabled as a default so it shouldn't be that.

scottyboy · 15 Aug 2007 at 23:06

yeah i changed to fail safe and it made no difference..

mattyrigby00 · 15 Aug 2007 at 23:11

is everything especially the memory detected properly? are any fan warnings on? turn the cpu fan up to full blast and also disable any warnings about fan speed, it might be the tuniq tower is so good, the speed it is at is lower than the "warning speed" but the temps on the cpu are still fine.

RJC · 15 Aug 2007 at 23:20

what are your temperatures like in the BIOS for CPU and and system.

Rob

scottyboy · 15 Aug 2007 at 23:29

mattyrigby00 said:
is everything especially the memory detected properly? are any fan warnings on? turn the cpu fan up to full blast and also disable any warnings about fan speed, it might be the tuniq tower is so good, the speed it is at is lower than the "warning speed" but the temps on the cpu are still fine.

yes all detected. no fan warnings are on.