Low alarm beep tone and then it powers off

psd99 · 17 Oct 2008 at 19:04

Hi guys,

I am building a secondary system with parts I got lying around. I had to pick up a 2nd hand motherboard socket A from ebay.

Well I built the system got it into Windows but it will shut down on its own.
The internal beep will start to play a low tone beep kind of like an alarm and then it will power off itself.

I thought it could be the CPU temperature at the moment it is hovering on 60C on a Socket A XP 3000. I've had these things stable on 65C before without problems. I've looked in the BIOS and disabled that threshold thing.

What is going on here? Is this an indication the motherboard I got is nuked?

psd99 · 17 Oct 2008 at 19:12

Oh I might as well add this board is a Gigabyte 7400 pro but I originally had a Gigabyte 7400 Pro 2 board which my OS was installed on.

I didn't reinstall the OS I just swapped the board and took off all the good components and stuck them on my new PC.

When I got the new board I powered it on and put the drive in it went straight into Windows no problems except....this low alarm could this be the problem?

AtaRo · 17 Oct 2008 at 19:17

check the bios there is an option there to shutdown the cpu if it reach a certain temp. forgot what its called but it should be there.

psd99 · 17 Oct 2008 at 19:23

I'm sure that thing is disabled though.

psd99 · 17 Oct 2008 at 19:50

woah is there a default threshold value?

I see my temperatures using gigabyte utility go up to 75C then it fluctuates down to 55C it jumps quite high then low. I've turned her on and kept the case open. Will leave it on for a good hour if it stays on I know it is overheating CPU. So I have found the problem I went into the bios and set the value at 80C just in case the disabled did not work.

AtaRo · 17 Oct 2008 at 22:06

Before i upgraded my file server.it got an athlon xp 1900+ with msi K7N2 Delta mobo and my case got really poor airflow and it will always give off a siren like sound when its overheating but after replacing the stock cooler with a bigger one the temp stays below 60 and that stop it from overheating.

eddie_slovik · 18 Oct 2008 at 12:35

I cut my teeth on a Socket A XP 3000 and your problems seem awfully familiar.

Try reseating the cpu heatsink with some AS5 and add a case fan, doing that knocked 18C off my system temp and 10C off the cpu.

psd99 · 19 Oct 2008 at 21:26

Hi guys I found out that the xp 3000 is a real swine OVER the XP 3200 to cool down.

My 3200 used to be hot but it never turned the system off I damaged the 3200 and had to use a 3000 but that was a swine to cool down so I've gone down to XP2400 which is much easier to cool down.

The system doesn't shut off now all I got to do is update the BIOS so my CPU does get recognised properly instead of being an Athlon 1900.

psd99 · 19 Oct 2008 at 21:27

Well it must be true that those Socket A cpus are all different at cooling and even the higher specced ones are better at cooling than the lower I know it sounds strange but I reckon it is true!