I built a computer in March using Sharky's High End Gaming system as my basis. It has been working fine for two months with no issues (other than the usual Vista growing pains). Last night, I tried to turn on the computer and it stopped before it POSTed and beeped a solid long beep of about 20 seconds, paused for about 3 seconds and did it again. It repeated this several times during the evening. I've tried Googling a long beep (which I think is from the motherboard but I'm just guessing) but haven't found anything good. Does anyone have an idea as to what to look for?
Well, exactly what do you have as your configuration? A beep is most likely from the motherboard, and could be several things. I'd try reseating the RAM and all your cards to see if that remedies anything.
Here's the list of the computer components: Case: ThermalTake Armor VA8000BWS Full Tower Power Supply: Cooler Master Real Power 650W Processor: Core 2 Duo E8400 (3.0GHz) Retail Motherboard: ASUS P5E Memory: 2x1GB Corsair XMS2-8500 (TWIN2X2048-8500C5) Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750GB SATA Video Card: GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB Sound Card: Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Speakers: Logitech THX Z-5300e 5.1 Speakers DVD-/+RW: Samsung SH-S203B 20X SATA Mouse: Logitech MX Revolution Laser Cordless Mouse Keyboard: Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard Operating System: Windows Vista Home Premium I tried resetting the memory, moved it from one channel to the other and back. At one point, I got a long beep, and 2 short ones which "the Google" tells me is a video error. I reset that and it went back to 1 long (20+ seconds in length) beep which repeated until I got sick of hearing it. Any ideas? And/or is there something else I should try?
Just in case anyone really wanted to know what happened, it appears that my motherboard shorted out. I had a friend place it into one of his cases with his memory and cpu and it wouldn't boot either. I just replaced the motherboard this morning and it is working fine. Now I just have to reinstall everything (stupid Vista not liking a changed motherboard).
