One long beep two short!! help
- Thread starter daveydave
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Lets start again..
You said "ok i just put heatspreaders on my ram sticks , now all of a sudden a my screen is not appearing on boot. it worked a few times and then didnt a few others"
So the machine was OK until you started messing with it?
I suppose if you shorted the ram anything could have happened, but now we have a graphics card error?
BIOS beeps are not an exact science (hard to work out the beeps and sometimes they are red herrings esp if got at by packard bell)
If you remove the ram and boot it (won't do any harm) you should get the correct error beep for no ram.
Some of these boards with onboard graphics auto detect an AGP card, but if you are going to remove it you have to tell the BIOS to go back to onboard hence you get no display and the PC doesn't detect a graphics card.
It's easy to get your data from a hard drive if thats whats worrying you.
Add it as slave in machine you are on now.
You need to be very precise when replying to a post as well as to what the situation is at the mo.
That is NOT booting.
You said "ok i just put heatspreaders on my ram sticks , now all of a sudden a my screen is not appearing on boot. it worked a few times and then didnt a few others"
So the machine was OK until you started messing with it?
I suppose if you shorted the ram anything could have happened, but now we have a graphics card error?
BIOS beeps are not an exact science (hard to work out the beeps and sometimes they are red herrings esp if got at by packard bell)
If you remove the ram and boot it (won't do any harm) you should get the correct error beep for no ram.
Some of these boards with onboard graphics auto detect an AGP card, but if you are going to remove it you have to tell the BIOS to go back to onboard hence you get no display and the PC doesn't detect a graphics card.
It's easy to get your data from a hard drive if thats whats worrying you.
Add it as slave in machine you are on now.
You need to be very precise when replying to a post as well as to what the situation is at the mo.
That is NOT booting.
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david.n.c said:
Have you thought this through at all?
Your current board is based on the Intel 865 chipset I believe. Your new board is based on the Intel 955 chipset.
Now, you might get lucky and it'll boot (with your new RAM in place), but it probably won't. You will almost cetainly have to re-install Windows. To keep your existing files you could try to just overwrite the existing Windows folder, but it's REALLY not recommended.
And, as the words Packard Bell keep ringing round this thread, I'm going to bet your machine doesn't have a Windows CD - probably only a Recovery disk or a recovery partition on the HDD. Again, it's not a major issue as you should be able to get a free student Windows Licence with media kit from your Educational Establishment, but it's not going to be boot and work on.
I would strongly recommend you recover your coursework files before you do anything else, if you haven't already done so.
if it doesnt boot, and i start to re-install windows, if i do overwrite opt to overwrite the previous install.....a) will it give me the option of overwritting b) will overwritting the old windows installation affect my stored data and c) if i do a clean install will it format my drive? - also why is it not reccomended to overwrite?
Have you tried removing all the components from the motherboard except memory, cpu and graphics card; take the board out of the case and try powering it up outside of the case, this could be a case shorting issue and this will tell you.
BREAKTHROUGH! remove ram from dimm1 and all pci and agp n no beeps?? gona try onboard graphics and put things in one by one...anyone seen anything like this before......now one off the dimm slots is dead as is the agp slot
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david.n.c said:
If you do actually have a ASUS P5S800-VM, then you already have 184-PIN DDR DIMMs, not DDR2 240-PIN DIMMs.
Your sig also suggests you are running your P4 at 133FSB which is massively underclocked if correct.