Award bios, socket A, continuous long beeps (never stops) and no POST.

Computer Forum CPU, Motherboards and Memory
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Hi guys..

I have (or had) an abit nf7-s 2.0 motherboard…

all was working well until one day I turned it on. No beeps, but no post either… so I turned it off, and on again, and got 3 short beeps. I turned it off again, and on and then no beeps ever again.

So I though the BIOS got forked or something so I used an asus board with and AWARD bios to flash it, hotswapping the bios(es). Flash went fine.

I put the bios back in my computer and now I just got long beeps, like 2 seconds each which do not stop unless I turn the power off.

I’ve read that this could be memory related but I never touched the memory. Anyways, I tried to reseat them (have modules), still no go.

Then I tried using just 1 stick and tried it in all 3 sockets, same problem.

I think that something on the MB that controls the memory has died (northbridge maybe?).

Oh, forgot to mention that the fan on the northbridge died some time ago but since I never had a problem, I left it like that…

anyways… any ideas? or should I just get a cheap socket A board?

Thanks

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Have you also tried this with the other sticks? Did the problem go away? If not, then I guess that there’s something wrong with the Northbridge.

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yeah… tried some sticks from a friend of mine.. same problem…

I guess I’m gonna have to get another board it seems..

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If you had 3 short beeps and now 3 long beeps, then it seems there’s a connection problem with the RAM and the CPU, and the most probable cause would be the Northbridge. So you should indeed try a different motherboard.