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From: Christoph Kukulies on 30 Nov 2008 06:09 Have swpped an ASUS P4S8X into a new box. BTW, found that the board deforms quite heavily under the load of the CPU cooler press down force and had to put a rubber bumper under the board so that it wouldn't touch the sheet metal bottom. Hope it didn't suffer any damage meanwhile. Anyway, what is new now is that I have put a P4 3.0 GHz (or is it 3.02 or 3.2? - not sure at the moment when writing this) in it and put in two 1GB Ram bars (Samsung PC3200U-30331-EO 1GB DDR PC3200 CL3) into it. Also I in lack of a better graphics card a Matrox G200 AGB is in it. No keyboard is connected yet but I was hoping to get a BIOS screean at the least. Instead the only thing what happens after powering on is a alternating beep, starting 0.5 sec HI, 0.5 sec LO (an octave, FWIW), roughly. What could be wrong. Any source for the beep codes somewhere? -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kukulies (at) rwth-aachen.de
From: Paul on 30 Nov 2008 14:25 Christoph Kukulies wrote: > Have swpped an ASUS P4S8X into a new box. BTW, found that the board > deforms quite heavily under the load of the CPU cooler press down force > and had to put a rubber bumper under the board so that it wouldn't touch > the sheet metal bottom. Hope it didn't suffer any damage meanwhile. > > Anyway, what is new now is that I have put a P4 3.0 GHz (or is it 3.02 > or 3.2? - not sure at the moment when writing this) in it and put in two > 1GB Ram bars (Samsung PC3200U-30331-EO 1GB DDR PC3200 CL3) into it. > > Also I in lack of a better graphics card a Matrox G200 AGB is in it. > > No keyboard is connected yet but I was hoping to get a BIOS screean at > the least. > Instead the only thing what happens after powering on is a alternating > beep, starting 0.5 sec HI, 0.5 sec LO (an octave, FWIW), roughly. > > What could be wrong. Any source for the beep codes somewhere? > > > -- > Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kukulies (at) rwth-aachen.de > Vcore out of spec ? CPU Overheat ? Something to do with the hardware monitor ? You shouldn't flex a motherboard too much, because you can break the BGA solder joints. I've run into situations where the heatsink cam lever was exerting too much force (I could not close it), so I replaced the retail heatsink with an after-market heatsink. I've used a couple CNPS7000 Zalman ones, because those screw into place. And you can adjust the screws for just the right amount of pressure. Beep codes can be found on bioscentral.com . http://bioscentral.com/beepcodes/awardbeep.htm Paul
From: Kent_Diego on 30 Nov 2008 14:38 > ....Instead the only thing what happens after powering on is a alternating > beep, starting 0.5 sec HI, 0.5 sec LO (an octave, FWIW), roughly. > .... The only time I have heard the "alarm" go off is when the CPU gets too hot. Since you have had issues with heatsink mounting, I would look there first.
From: RobV on 30 Nov 2008 17:23 Christoph Kukulies wrote: > Have swpped an ASUS P4S8X into a new box. BTW, found that the board > deforms quite heavily under the load of the CPU cooler press down > force and had to put a rubber bumper under the board so that it > wouldn't touch the sheet metal bottom. Hope it didn't suffer any > damage meanwhile. > > Anyway, what is new now is that I have put a P4 3.0 GHz (or is it 3.02 > or 3.2? - not sure at the moment when writing this) in it and put in > two 1GB Ram bars (Samsung PC3200U-30331-EO 1GB DDR PC3200 CL3) into > it. > > Also I in lack of a better graphics card a Matrox G200 AGB is in it. > > No keyboard is connected yet but I was hoping to get a BIOS screean at > the least. > Instead the only thing what happens after powering on is a alternating > beep, starting 0.5 sec HI, 0.5 sec LO (an octave, FWIW), roughly. > > What could be wrong. Any source for the beep codes somewhere? That's a pretty standard code for CPU overheating. If the heatsink isn't mounted properly and not contacting the CPU as it should, the CPU can overheat very quickly and the BIOS will give the "siren" sound. It's also possible the CPU heatsink fan is not plugged into the proper socket, or the fan is not spinning, or spinning fast enough for what the BIOS expects. You did use a thin coat of thermal compound between the CPU and heatsink?
From: Christoph Kukulies on 1 Dec 2008 03:15
RobV <robv(a)nowhere.invalid> wrote: > Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > the least. > > Instead the only thing what happens after powering on is a alternating > > beep, starting 0.5 sec HI, 0.5 sec LO (an octave, FWIW), roughly. > > > > What could be wrong. Any source for the beep codes somewhere? > That's a pretty standard code for CPU overheating. If the heatsink > isn't mounted properly and not contacting the CPU as it should, the CPU > can overheat very quickly and the BIOS will give the "siren" sound. > It's also possible the CPU heatsink fan is not plugged into the proper > socket, or the fan is not spinning, or spinning fast enough for what the > BIOS expects. You did use a thin coat of thermal compound between the > CPU and heatsink? The beep starts as the first sign that could be heard after powering on the computer from cold. But as you say, overheating could start quickly. I put some white termo compound on the soft rubber square pad also. No display at all. The fan spins (also fast I would say) There are two receptacles for the CPU fan plug. Thought they were equal. OK, will give it another try tonight. Thanks so far. -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kukulies (at) rwth-aachen.de |