System beep, what is it? - Tech Support Forums

Bizkitkid2001 · February 5th, 2004, 10:51 PM

I came home today and started a game of NFSU. Played a couple games and then my monitor went into stand-by mode. I restarted, and it didn't it again after a few games. Resarted again, and then only after a minute on the desktop my mouse just freezes, the whole system freezes., restart once again. This time it didn't even load the desktop before it froze. Now all I get is a beep error. Its a continuos louad beep then short beep then loud beep then short beep etc... Like a siren. I looked this up on the internet and found that this is CPU overheating related. But my cpu temps were showing up fine in the boot screen, 37°C. Then I thought maybe it was my memory since i never could get it to run at its stock speeds, had to underclock it. I tried the memory in a different slot, and not only do i get eh siren beep, i also get a beep that is a continuos of long quite beeps. long beep, then pause for a second, then it would go again.

The memory I am not 100% percent sure though as i don't know if it is all the way in the other slot I moved it to cause the video card is in the way. So I only have one memory slot that i truly know that i am getting the ram in all the way.

Motherboard is an Epox 8RDA+
CPU AMD XP 2100+
Ram kingston pc2700

any help as to confirming what the problem is would be appreciated. I miss my comptuer already, i hate using this old 500mhz

Thanks,
-Biz

Brainchild · February 5th, 2004, 11:13 PM

I'd pull the CPU out,and inspect it to see if it has any damage.Sometimes reseating it will help.

Good luck

The Real Bingo · February 5th, 2004, 11:17 PM

Hmm, Biz, I got the siren beep before too. Try resetting CMOS?

evilphantomx · February 5th, 2004, 11:23 PM

wow....yea sounds like a cpu overheat.......the temp sensors on most mobo are usually cheap thermisters and cannot be relied on....there can be a real difference between real life and what they report

Bizkitkid2001 · February 5th, 2004, 11:26 PM

i was hoping you woldn't say that. DO you know how hard it is to put on an aeroflow? lol. Oh well, i'll try resseting the bios tomorrow. If that doesn't work, i'll inspect the cpu and reseat the hs/f. I still don't know what I did to cause this problem. My system was running fine for 2 days straight until this happened. strange.

Bizkitkid2001 · February 6th, 2004, 05:32 PM

Well, i finally got the memory stick to fit into the other dim. Kinda a tricky manuver on what position i need to lift the video card while fasteing the clip for the memory. lol. It got rid of both system beeps. And it seems to be doing fine now. I know that with the memory is dimm1, that the hard drive cables were pushing into a little, maybe thats what had cuased it to mess up. Cuase it was like sideways in the slot.

So far its been running for a whole two minutes now(Just got home and moved the memory) and it hasn't froze yet. Maybe I can actually get it to run at 177mhz now that its fully in the dimm slot. :P

butch81385 · February 6th, 2004, 05:38 PM

i wish the best of luck...
and good thing you didnt have to take off the hsf

i know i hate it when i have to take my volcano 9 coolmod off esp since its only about 3 cm away from the powersupply on its top edge...

Bizkitkid2001 · February 7th, 2004, 12:04 AM

Well its doing it again. I think it might be my PSU. When the post shows, at the bottom right it show my voltages. Some of them go down, and turn red warning that the level they are going down to is too low. This never happened before. But when I checked in windows my voltages were fine. But then again, somtimes when it crashes and restarts I get eh CPU over heat beep code. Somtimes I don't. And sometimes when it plays the cpu beep code, it tends to get real quit and muddy like as if its losing power when trying to play the sound. Like batteries going dead in a boombox.

My PSU is a foxxcon/allied 450watt.

Bizkitkid2001 · February 7th, 2004, 01:40 AM

Well I think I might have found ym problem, hopefully.

My comptuer was running fine for a good hour and a half at full load running seti. Never got above 35°C. So it wasn't a heat issue. But then all of a sudden my system freezes, and my monitor goes into standby mode. I hit my reset button and noticed a wierd sound coming from my system, i went down on to the flor and stuck my head into the case. I heard the sound coming from my cpu fan, and saw a wire was rubbing up against it. When I touch the wire my comptuer restarted again. I traced the wire and found out it was a wire coming from hte mobo power connecter. When I touch my mobo power connector to see how well it was plugged it, it easily fell out. I was like "Thats not right" I plugged it back in and made usre it was nice and snugg and it wasn't going to come out again. Hopefully this was the problem, and why I was getting voltage fluctuiations. I guess since it was hittin the cpu fan, it was being move, and cause the connector to move, and cut the power for a second causing my system to restart or freeze.

Bizkitkid2001 · February 7th, 2004, 04:05 PM

That seemed to have done the trick. My computer ran all night at full load with no problems, and still being OCed.