POST beeps

[John LG]

Hi,
After taking over mac's budget build sticky, I have to be good and start a new quick query.

The motherboard that I thought had died, no post etc, has shown new life!

The reason I thought it was dead was when powered up only fans kicked in, no beeps.

Quite randomly I discovered that when I boot with no agp card connected (hdd, cpu, RAM connected) I get the expected 1 long and 2 short beeps for a video/graphics error. This surely means that the board and bios are ok, doesn't it? Don't have a spare agp card, and no onboard graphics, so all I'm really hoping is that if you think it sounds promising, I'll not throw everything out in a huff, and try to get my hands on a different agp card. Of course, I suppose the other possibility is that the agp slot is damaged, so that would be fatal anyway.

Let me know you thoughts, and advice please.

John

I've ordered a new budget PC based on spec in mac's thread, so not too disponent if it has to go...

[Lynx]

Reset the cmos jumper?/taken out battery and power for 30 secs?

[John LG]

Reset the cmos jumper?/taken out battery and power for 30 secs?

Good idea...
... nope. Same thing happens, beeps without card, nothing but fans with the card.

I noticed something else though. With the card in, when I turn on psu supply, the PC starts up without me pressing on button. This didn't happen when no card was in.

[Micky007]

i have that problem aswell, PC just turns itself on, thats why i always have to turn the switch off so over night it doesnt turn it self on again which is annoying.

[mac124]

This graphics card is originally from the pc that went supanova i assume? If so it sounds to me like it might be dead. Unfortunately without a known working pc / graphics card to swap it out with there is no real way of proving it though BUT as the mobo beeps as you would expect it to, with no graphics card fitted it is a reasonable assumption.

[John LG]

Thanks Mac, the supanova PC was the newer one with a PCI-exp card. This was the older one, that I thought I'd dig out and reuse instead of selling - the one that worked when plugged in on the antistatic bag and minimal connections, only then to move into case and stop working! So at that point the agp card was OK. I'll try and 'borrow' an old card from work, and test.

[mac124]

Ah ok my bad.

Have you tried refitting the gfx card? Might have just been misaligned when refitting into the case, my Xfi card is a sod for that in my media pc.

[John LG]

Borrowed an old agp card from work, and it works fine. The other card must have been damaged too...
All up and working. Thanks,
J