DrEvil270183 Posted September 12, 2009 Report Share Posted September 12, 2009 Evening all,Basically I turn my PC on and it beeps once, all starts up fine. No issues whats so ever.Sometime like this morning, it beeps twice and slightly longer than usually and then nothing happens. Then fans are active as I can hear them but never boots up at all. No signals to the monitors either.I've only had issue last year with ram, replaced that and did a clean install. That was issues with crashing etc all the time. I'm wondering if a parts no messing up? Motherboard maybe? Any ideas?Its a Pentium 4 2.66GHz, all the Ram is being picked up, Connect 3d Radeon 9600 series graphics card, motherboard is a Shuttle mainboard AV49VN.It's getting pretty old now but has always been reliable until now. More scrared that any day now I won't be able to turn the comp on at all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrayvon Posted September 12, 2009 Report Share Posted September 12, 2009 (edited) Try running memtest to see if your ram is failing. Can be found here:hereIf that passes then I am afraid you should probably get another system to test your parts in. Boring and tedious but you will find out that way EDIT: I presume you have checked for loose wires etc?A long continuous beep is usually when you have forgotten to plug the pci express power leads into the graphics card (if it needs one). But the fact that it only does it every so often means it wont be that )I think I am still drunk, I seem to be rambling. Maybe I will come back and reply when sober. SORRY!!! Edited September 12, 2009 by Wrayvon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted September 12, 2009 Report Share Posted September 12, 2009 My computer sometimes does that - It just hangs a few seconds into the boot sequence and beeps. I found out that it was a USB TV card, if I unplugged that it carried on as normal. So check things like that.Also the number beeps/timing is a code for what the fault is - you should be able to look it up online, but I think it'll be specific to your motherboard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManxTrialSpaz Posted September 12, 2009 Report Share Posted September 12, 2009 Also the number beeps/timing is a code for what the fault is - you should be able to look it up online, but I think it'll be specific to your motherboard.This wil probably be the best course of action. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Samsam~ Posted September 12, 2009 Report Share Posted September 12, 2009 A long continuous beep is usually when you have forgotten to plug the pci express power leads into the graphics card (if it needs one). But the fact that it only does it every so often means it wont be that )Mine did that when I turned on my computerSHAT A brickOT:I had a similar problem, took the battery out of my motherboard for 24 hours and then put it back in and turn it on and it was fine; won't work all the time but if you can't find anything else, try that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrEvil270183 Posted September 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 Mine is a long beep followed by two short beeps. Found that the beeps mean "Display adapter problem." Looking at how to sort it now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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