Rig not booting; High pitched beep

Darthe · 11 Nov 2007 at 20:48

Just finnished rebuilding my machine (which appart from some messy cable mananagement worked fine), and now its not booting and I'm getting one, long continious high pitched beep.

According to the manual that means either keyboard controller error, refresh time error or no master drive detected...none of which I've a clue how to fit. As far as I can tell, everythings plugged in fine.

Any ideas?

Running an E6600 on a P5B-E Plus motherboard, GF8800 GTS, Vista 32 Bit, 2 GB Giel RAM.

Darthe · 11 Nov 2007 at 21:52

Bump.

Checked the Graphics card, fan is spinning. CPU and case fans are spinning fine. Tried reseating the RAM, no problem. Tried disconnecting the hard drives, no difference.

Its got me stumped. Kinda hoped it was a loose wire, but I'm getting a horrible feeling this is going to cost me money.

mishima · 11 Nov 2007 at 22:37

How many HDD's you running and what interface are they - SATA or IDE?

Darthe · 11 Nov 2007 at 22:50

Two, both SATA.

Garyj881 · 11 Nov 2007 at 23:38

Have you got power to the GFX card via the 6-pin power connector?

Darthe · 11 Nov 2007 at 23:45

Checked and re-checked. Tried a different 6-pin cable and re-seating the graphics card too.

misterPK · 12 Nov 2007 at 09:14

CPU power cable?

Other than that, just try taking everything apart and rebuilding it, I find thats the best way to check if you havent connected something you can't spot.

Also you might want to try reseting the CMOS and trying it with each stick of ram in every slot.

PK!

Darthe · 12 Nov 2007 at 09:17

Is this even a beep code anyone recognises? I thought the ASUS P5B-E Plus was an AMI board, but there arn't any continious beep codes for AMI that I can find. Really at a loss on this one.

Cheers PK, I'll give that a try tonight. So much for all my fancy cable management.