Help - long beep at POST?

[mishima]

Hi,

Just fitted a new heatsink to my northbridge chip on my NF7 board. When I boot up all fans spin and I get a long beep. If I leave the machine on there is a pause and the long beep again and so on...

Can someone please help me??

 

[Trigger]

1. No beep at all - this means your motherboard is dead, either due to a defective or underpowered power supply, poorly seated CPU or RAM, or a dead-on-arrival board
2. One beep - board is working fine
3. One long beep then machine shuts down - faulty, improperly installed or missing CPU
4. 1 short(Beep) System booting is normally
5. 2 short(Beep) CMOS setting error
6. 1 long - 1 short(Beep) DRAM ERROR
7. 1 long - 2 short(Beep) Display card or monitor connected error
8. 1 long - 3 short(Beep) Keyboard Error
9. 1 long - 9 short(Beep) ROM Error
10. Long(Beep) continuous DRAM isn't inserted correctly
11. Short(Beep) continuous POWER supply has a problem
12. A two-tone siren, generally caused by overheating or out of specification voltages
13. Four beeps then machine shuts down. This is because this version of the BIOS will shut down your machine if no fan tachometer signal is detected on the fan header. Make sure you attach a fan to the FAN1 or FAN4 header or clear CMOS to reset to default (no checking).

I'd guess yours is #10 and by DRAM I assume it means your memory DIMMS- try reseating them

 

[mishima]

Thanks I'll give that a go!!

 

[mishima]

Excellent!! My worries are over, thought I had knackered something up there!! (Didn't even take out the RAM which is odd. I just swapped em round and it booted!)

Thanks for that mate!

 

[Trigger]

No worries mate, glad it's sorted