I've have tried to fix my other computer, which i thought only had a broken graphics card. Bought a new graphics card, put it in today and it started beeping at me when i turned it on the first time.

- Did the usual, turn off and re-push all the cables etc in properly.
- Started to format, finished formatting and restarted the computer
- on the next boot up i got the blue screen of death
- Pulled hdd out, replugged in and checked the slave/master settings, it was set on master w/ slave present, changed it to single master
- put xp cd in again and tried to format again, just to make sure it was ok.
- Half way through it says corrupt file ... reset computer
- Did again, new corrupt file
- Did again and it worked fine, formatted, reset and got into installing xp
- it froze so i reset it. then it starts beeping at me (1 slow beep every few seconds)

Anyone have any ideas what it could be? I'm thinking its probably the hdd but im not a leetzor mainframe hacker so i don't know :(

Any help would be much appreciated :D

Format.








Seriously though, check your RAM.

Def sounding like a RAM\MOBO issue there.. you can actually check a log file during the installation of XP, and even bring up a console window..though can't quite remember what keys bring it up.

So, like on my old pc, it kept crashing\BSOD when it tried to copy across a certain file, so I looked into the log and found out when it was Detecting Installed hardware it was crashing on installing my sound card..removed it..and it worked...

Could be anything, only sure way is to swap and change each component until its found.

Cursory 2nd on the RAM, but if your board has an onboard Vid, I would remove the Vid and try the process of elimination. I would start by removing all peripherals that are not required, and do a bare bones XP installation and see what happens. If it installs and works fine, then scratch the RAM. Try the Vid next, if it crashes, then look at Vid related issues....etc...etc, last port of call, take it to somebody who knows what they are doing!

FB

i just bought a brand new vid card today so i dont think it would be that... hopefully :P

Ill pull the ram out and chuck some other ram in there and give it a go.

Hopefully its just the ram because i have spare ram, but not a spare hdd :(

it froze so i reset it. then it starts beeping at me (1 slow beep every few seconds)

when i have a beep problem i usually just get out my motherboard manual and check what it is.

when i have a beep problem i usually just get out my motherboard manual and check what it is.

if only i had the manual still :(

The beeps are a standard, just google around for POST beeps and it will explain what they are for say a video problem, CPU problem, RAM problem and so on.

long continuous beeps = ram not detecting

If it is intermittantly working that generally means your RAM is well and truely rooted.

POST will succeed regardless of HDD presence. So a faulty HDD is not going to make your PC beep or fail POST (unless it is physically shorting out, which is pretty damn rare).

Question is why have your components crapped themselves. If you have a old generic type PSU its probably f***ed and feeding your PC bad power hence the pooped RAM.

Pop the PSU lid (whilst unplugged of course) and have a good check of the capacitors, if they are bulging or blown bye bye PSU. Faulty PSU will often cause BSODs, lockups and reboots and is often mistaken for faulty RAM.

last edited by rubba-chikin at 22:32:15 21/Aug/07

The beeps are a standard, just google around for POST beeps and it will explain what they are for say a video problem, CPU problem, RAM problem and so on.

unless your motherboard is made by asus, then it beeps once for every USB device you have. what the f*** asus?

nother vote for poorly seated ram

try pulling it out and reseating it for every reboot

one of the s***test feelings in the world.. knowing(thinking) what is wrong with something....EVENTUALLY fixing the problem to find that wasnt the problem anyways.

<---------------insert relationship advice here

oh we are talking computers... myyyyyy mistake.

BUT ANYWAYS.... random stuff aptly inserted after this text.




Those who crave it, well they hate it.
Those who hate it, well they crave it.
Those who hate it and don’t want it, crave it.
Those who save it, they do waste it.
Those who want it, find they starve it
Those who play it, really kill it.
Those who REALLY hate it, never FELT it.
Those who never felt it, they don’t want it.
If they want it, then they don’t have it.
BECAUSE if they had it, then they would KNOW it.

HOWEVER….

If you crave it then you’ve had it.
If then you don’t want it, you’ve not had it.
If you’ve had it and don’t want it…..
Then you know you REALLY WANT IT.


Furthermore
.

IT was HERE NOW, but you are THERE THEN.
After all, NOW is HERE NOW, and THEN THERE is NOW.
What WAS HERE THEN, is WHAT WAS never HERE.
THERE was, what is NOW, if THEN it isn’t THERE.
AGAIN is what never WAS, if THEN it isn’t HERE.
AGAIN is what WAS, NOW!
just because
THEN, NOW and WHEN is NOW................ AND THAT IS ALL THERE IS.








jmc.


edit:wrong quote

p.s. dont encourage the WEIRDO.

last edited by sleepy at 00:13:00 23/Aug/07

unless your motherboard is made by asus, then it beeps once for every USB device you have. what the f*** asus?

wtf?

sc00bs from your description your mobo is on the way out. prolly look into your psu as rubba suggested to eh