Specs: Biostar M7NCD Pro Athlon XP 3000+ Powercolor Radeon 9600 Pro 128MB Thermaltake PurePower 420W 60GB 7200RPM Maxtor Here's the story. My brother's PC is having problems with a few..maybe just one game. After playing for 20 minutes or so, the game will exit back to Windows, sometimes with an error message (the one where ms asks you if you want to report it) and sometimes no error message. He was not using the latest video card drivers, so I downloaded the latest ATI had to offer and installed them. Now it seems almost EVERY game he tries to play is exiting back to Windows at some point...all except Halo. Then I tried Omega's latest offering...no improvement. I then thought it could be the RAM since he was using 2 differnt types (1x512MB PC2700 Crucial, 1x512MB PC3200 Ultra). Before I took 1 stick out, I relized that I had one stick in slot 1 and the other in 2. If I put one of them in the 3rd slot, dual channel is supposed to work. :good: So I moved one to the 3rd slot, and the other is in the first. Power it up, no display, and it is making a long beep, and about a 1.5 sec pause, then beeps a long beep again (repeats) :swear: I know try to boot with just one stick. Same thing. I look things over, and try some more. One of the times I turned it on it was beeping constantly (speaker constantly making sound) until I turned the PC off! What do these sounds mean? So that's where I am now. Very productive....:crash: Where do I begin?
Emm...I'm not sure. The mobo manual just labels the power as an ATX connector and the PSU is labeled as ATX type. The power cable fits fine into the mobo. Here some info on the PSU: (Non-PFC) http://www.thermaltake.com/purepower/w00089.htm Mobo: http://www.biostar.com.tw/products/mainboard/board.php?name=M7NCD Pro Not sure if will help or not.
If your speaker is making noises at boot-time you can take a short-cut by looking at what kind of BIOS you have and checking the relevant link at www.bioscentral.com.
I don't think any of these match my beeping. It makes about a 1 second-long beep, then pauses for about 1.5 seconds and does it again...and again until I power it off.
power down your computer, turn the PSU switch off and remove the main cable on the motherboard and count how many holes it has for pins to answer what max asked before
Thank you zRock. Yea once you do that you will know if you need an adapter. A 20 pin PSU connector will fit fine in a 24 pin motherboard but it may not operate.
put the 3200 in slot 1 and the 2700 in slot 2 because if you have the 2700 in 1 and the 3200 in 2 the mobo is trying to operate the 2700 as 3200 if you catch my drift. alternitavely put 3200 in 2 and 2700 in 3 to enable dual channel (on most mobos this is possible)
