Beep Codes

[mubs]

What the heck is a single long beep (not the short single that occurs on a normal boot up), repeated at intervals? My beep code cheat sheet doesn't have it listed. To get rid of it, I pulled out the video card, air-dusted it and reseated it; did same with an add-on PCI USB card. PC booted normally after that.

 

[Chewy509]

Which BIOS?

IBM, HP, Dell, AMI, etc all have different meanings...

In a book I have, 1 long beep is DMA controller error but thats for AST and AMI BIOS only.

 

[Howell]

If had video during/after the beep then I would believe memory. If not then video. But, like Chewy says it is very dependent on the BIOS. The motherboard manual should give beep codes.

 

[mubs]

Sorry for the delay.

BIOS is Phoenix Award 6.00 PG on a DFI LanParty UT NF4 SLI-DR Expert.

Happened again just now on boot. The MB has "diagnostic LEDs" that light up on power on and go off one by one as it detects each piece of hw. The LED for CPU detection goes off, but the one for memory stays on and the beeping starts. No video at all. I reseated the memory and now it has booted. The pain is that the RAM sits below the huge Thermalright heatsink, so I can unseat and reseat with difficulty. If I am to remove, dust and seat properly, I will have to take the CPU heatsink off, a prospect I am not looking forward to.

In any case I had purchased 2 additional sticks of RAM from Clocker in the fall of 2007 which I've never put in (lazy me). I will have to do that soon before I install Win 7, so maybe a full tear down and rebuild is in order.