Help me! BIOS Beep codes

dandoubleo · 7 Jul 2006 at 17:33

Help me!

Ok guys heres the story. One morning i was sat there until the early hours playing games on the computer. Switched it off all fine. Woke up the next morning to check emails and bam it wont work!
When i press the on button it makes two beeps one high in tone and one low in tone, these follow each other instantly. The computer then boots as normal until it asks me how to boot, e.g. Fail safe, normal or safe mode, i have tried each of these and the same thing happens, boot will continue until it reaches the black loading screen with the large windows logo sign, it hangs on this for say 30 seconds and then restarts and goes through the same sequence. Iv had a look round and cant find a matching beep code. The bios is Phoenix - award v6.00.

System is:
AMD Sempron 3600
ATI Radeon x300
2 Hard Drives
1 x 512mb Geil RAM
Asus NV8 Motherboard

Thanks for any help guys

crashuk · 7 Jul 2006 at 17:36

hummm power supply?

dandoubleo · 7 Jul 2006 at 17:39

crashuk said:
hummm power supply?

230v from what i can tell mate.

dandoubleo · 7 Jul 2006 at 18:16

Oh yeah guys, this system has been running fine with no problems since about christmas.

GhostRider · 8 Jul 2006 at 00:08

Could it be overheating? What the bios cpu temps? Is there loads of dust on the
CPU fan because this would lower the rpm of that fan.

crashuk · 8 Jul 2006 at 00:10

what i meant was could be power supply failure,

split · 8 Jul 2006 at 01:47

Known award beep codes.
Phoenix beep codes.

O'h and BTW can you get into the BIOS?

dandoubleo · 8 Jul 2006 at 03:01

split said:
O'h and BTW can you get into the BIOS?

Yeah i can get into the bios.

All the tempretures are fine, running at around the mid 30's at the moment.

EDIT* : It will run all day with no problems in the bios.

dandoubleo · 8 Jul 2006 at 17:36

Just a litlle update guys, iv tried reseating everything so far and no luck.

GhostRider · 8 Jul 2006 at 18:03

could be your power suppy because the capacitor has aged

http://www.extreme.outervision.com/psucalculator.jsp

try unplugging extra devices like dvd, floppy and second hard drive then booting

dandoubleo · 8 Jul 2006 at 19:06

GhostRider said:
could be your power suppy because the capacitor has aged

http://www.extreme.outervision.com/psucalculator.jsp

try unplugging extra devices like dvd, floppy and second hard drive then booting

Ok did that left it with one system fan, cpu fan, one hard drive and one cd drive. Still no luck im afraid. Thanks for the ideas though mate, keep em coming!