New MoBo, Hair pulling problems
BulletToothTony
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Ok, heres the story, my pc came in from NEWEGG last week and this weekend I had some two divided over the two days to throw it together.
P4 3.0E Prescot
DFI LanParty 875B MoBo
When I had finally pieced all together, the pc booted up nicely. But instead of letting it boot into XP, (because I didn't feel like going through the MS clearing house at the time) I went into my bios and figured I would navigate through there for the short amount of time I had to fool around. While I was on my adventure, I noticed there was a section for CPU fan, and it was disabled. So I thought that was strange and I enabled it. The only other settings that I made were to the clock, which was off a day and set my bios password.
when the pc rebooted, it gave off five straight beeps and then powered itself down. I have looked high and low on DFIs website to find a solution, but other than tweaking, they are no help. I am going to check Phoenix's site, since I am running their award bios with CMOS RELOADED. The thing that stinks is that I can't get into the bios to change these settings back to default and feel that I may have to flash the bios. I am hoping it is not my cpu because I am unsure of the exchange policy, after I had already put Artic Silver on it.
If anybody has some suggestions, it would be greatly appreciated. I just wish I had some time where I could sit down with the thing and put some serious concentration into it.
Thanks in advance!
P4 3.0E Prescot
DFI LanParty 875B MoBo
When I had finally pieced all together, the pc booted up nicely. But instead of letting it boot into XP, (because I didn't feel like going through the MS clearing house at the time) I went into my bios and figured I would navigate through there for the short amount of time I had to fool around. While I was on my adventure, I noticed there was a section for CPU fan, and it was disabled. So I thought that was strange and I enabled it. The only other settings that I made were to the clock, which was off a day and set my bios password.
when the pc rebooted, it gave off five straight beeps and then powered itself down. I have looked high and low on DFIs website to find a solution, but other than tweaking, they are no help. I am going to check Phoenix's site, since I am running their award bios with CMOS RELOADED. The thing that stinks is that I can't get into the bios to change these settings back to default and feel that I may have to flash the bios. I am hoping it is not my cpu because I am unsure of the exchange policy, after I had already put Artic Silver on it.
If anybody has some suggestions, it would be greatly appreciated. I just wish I had some time where I could sit down with the thing and put some serious concentration into it.
Thanks in advance!
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TeKniques
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Have you tried clearing the CMOS jumper? If that doesn't work I would just boot it with CPU, Ram, and Video to eliminate any conflicts.
Dunno, maybe the board is bad
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BulletToothTony
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That is the logical thing to do, time is the only issue. Because I need to nip this problem in the butt and if it turns out to be faulty hardware, then I need to figure it out and exchange pretty soon.
IF there was only a couple more hours in the day
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crabeater
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You get past the POST? THEN beeps as Windows starts? Can't get to safe mode?
5 beeps, in some bios, is 'processor error' (AMI v4.5) so can you check the codes? But Phoenix uses breaks between beeps.
THIS is from a SIEMENS site:
http://fsc-pc.de/DriverCD/Start_GB_Notebook.htm?uri=/KnowHow/GB/BIOS/BIOSCodes/BeepCode.htm&menu=/DriverCD/_1st_Start/GB/MenuListe_BIOS.htm
Maybe you can find more.
IF Otherwise, THEN re-seat the CPU & BIOS chips, clear the CMOS.
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Webmaster
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Links to the PDFs with the post and bios beep codes for AMI, Award and Phoenix (the latter two are the same) are listed in my CMOS/BIOS/POST TechNotes:
www.techexams.net/technotes/cmos.shtml -
Ricka182
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I would reset the CMOS jumper. The fan disabled setting is not the actual power for the fan, but a hardware monitor, to let you know the RPMs, or if it has stopped completely. Although, I wouldn't think that would cause five beeps, which are not defined by Phoenix. Check your manual for the procedeure to reset the CMOS jumper, usually very simple and quick.i remain, he who remains to be....
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BulletToothTony
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Thanks everybody for the advice. I ended up reseting the jumper and now I just need to find the time to reset a couple of values. Was kind of hoping to finally play Doom3 this weekend, but that obviously didn't happen. Thanks again.
