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Old November 10th 04, 09:23 PM
Deadeye
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Default Two-tone siren and shutdown...why?

I'm getting the two-tone "police style" siren on startup. I cant work out
exactly why but there's a possibility that my cpu temp probe is faulty - it
sometimes gives readings of -127 degrees but when I remove the mobo and
test things outside the case environment, it is ok.

Right now it's doing nothing but give me the siren on startup. What factors
cause this?


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Old November 10th 04, 11:10 PM
Christo
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"Deadeye" wrote in message
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I'm getting the two-tone "police style" siren on startup. I cant work out
exactly why but there's a possibility that my cpu temp probe is faulty -
it
sometimes gives readings of -127 degrees but when I remove the mobo and
test things outside the case environment, it is ok.

Right now it's doing nothing but give me the siren on startup. What
factors
cause this?



havent a clue, i remember there was a list of what the beeps meant that
someone on the net possibly even this group gave me

http://bioscentral.com/beepcodes/awardbeep.htm

check it out

Repeating high/low as you desribed generally is CPU as you suspect, maybe it
is a faulty mboard

however your beep could be repeating so it may be memory, try changing it
into a different bank (thats what my initial problem was lol)

if it isnt memory i would test CPU on another board, or/and test another CPU
on that board if you can.


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Old November 11th 04, 02:21 AM
Deadeye
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"Christo" wrote in message
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"Deadeye" wrote in message
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I'm getting the two-tone "police style" siren on startup. I cant work

out
exactly why but there's a possibility that my cpu temp probe is faulty -
it
sometimes gives readings of -127 degrees but when I remove the mobo and
test things outside the case environment, it is ok.

Right now it's doing nothing but give me the siren on startup. What
factors
cause this?



havent a clue, i remember there was a list of what the beeps meant that
someone on the net possibly even this group gave me

http://bioscentral.com/beepcodes/awardbeep.htm

check it out

Repeating high/low as you desribed generally is CPU as you suspect, maybe

it
is a faulty mboard

however your beep could be repeating so it may be memory, try changing it
into a different bank (thats what my initial problem was lol)

if it isnt memory i would test CPU on another board, or/and test another

CPU
on that board if you can.



Thanks for the advice.

I'm pretty confident it's not a memory issue. I know my cpu fan speed is a
little low, perhaps too low for the bios's liking. I think I'll stick a high
rpm fan on the "cpu_fan" mobo connector. This has been a good reason for me
to stop using my main PC and finally order an antec PSU anyways.

It's a lot less hassle when 1 pc is on the blink and you've got two other in
the house. I recommend everyone to buy a cheap PC to act as a server. Don't
worry about keyboard, monitor or mouse - you can use remote connection to
run programs/make changes etc. It's a godsend.


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Old November 11th 04, 11:58 PM
Christo
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"Deadeye" wrote in message
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"Christo" wrote in message
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"Deadeye" wrote in message
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I'm getting the two-tone "police style" siren on startup. I cant work

out
exactly why but there's a possibility that my cpu temp probe is
faulty -
it
sometimes gives readings of -127 degrees but when I remove the mobo
and
test things outside the case environment, it is ok.

Right now it's doing nothing but give me the siren on startup. What
factors
cause this?



havent a clue, i remember there was a list of what the beeps meant that
someone on the net possibly even this group gave me

http://bioscentral.com/beepcodes/awardbeep.htm

check it out

Repeating high/low as you desribed generally is CPU as you suspect, maybe

it
is a faulty mboard

however your beep could be repeating so it may be memory, try changing it
into a different bank (thats what my initial problem was lol)

if it isnt memory i would test CPU on another board, or/and test another

CPU
on that board if you can.



Thanks for the advice.

I'm pretty confident it's not a memory issue. I know my cpu fan speed is a
little low, perhaps too low for the bios's liking. I think I'll stick a
high
rpm fan on the "cpu_fan" mobo connector. This has been a good reason for
me
to stop using my main PC and finally order an antec PSU anyways.

It's a lot less hassle when 1 pc is on the blink and you've got two other
in
the house. I recommend everyone to buy a cheap PC to act as a server.
Don't
worry about keyboard, monitor or mouse - you can use remote connection to
run programs/make changes etc. It's a godsend.



i agree it helps with hardware faultfinding too

my mainboard recently failed, i initially thought it was the gfx, but it
turned out to be the mainboard because i had a few spares lying around to
test things out, i now have a nackered mb, if it is that, might have been a
simple CMOS problem (come to think of it i did change the CMOS jumper,
wonder if i changed it back)

oh i bet its that!!!


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Old November 14th 04, 01:40 AM
Sjaool
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Found this fix on the internet, maybe it can help you fix your problem.

http://s6.invisionfree.com/undercloc...p?showtopic=52


"Christo" schreef in bericht
...

"Deadeye" wrote in message
...

"Christo" wrote in message
...

"Deadeye" wrote in message
...
I'm getting the two-tone "police style" siren on startup. I cant work

out
exactly why but there's a possibility that my cpu temp probe is
faulty -
it
sometimes gives readings of -127 degrees but when I remove the mobo
and
test things outside the case environment, it is ok.

Right now it's doing nothing but give me the siren on startup. What
factors
cause this?



havent a clue, i remember there was a list of what the beeps meant that
someone on the net possibly even this group gave me

http://bioscentral.com/beepcodes/awardbeep.htm

check it out

Repeating high/low as you desribed generally is CPU as you suspect,
maybe

it
is a faulty mboard

however your beep could be repeating so it may be memory, try changing
it
into a different bank (thats what my initial problem was lol)

if it isnt memory i would test CPU on another board, or/and test another

CPU
on that board if you can.



Thanks for the advice.

I'm pretty confident it's not a memory issue. I know my cpu fan speed is
a
little low, perhaps too low for the bios's liking. I think I'll stick a
high
rpm fan on the "cpu_fan" mobo connector. This has been a good reason for
me
to stop using my main PC and finally order an antec PSU anyways.

It's a lot less hassle when 1 pc is on the blink and you've got two other
in
the house. I recommend everyone to buy a cheap PC to act as a server.
Don't
worry about keyboard, monitor or mouse - you can use remote connection to
run programs/make changes etc. It's a godsend.



i agree it helps with hardware faultfinding too

my mainboard recently failed, i initially thought it was the gfx, but it
turned out to be the mainboard because i had a few spares lying around to
test things out, i now have a nackered mb, if it is that, might have been
a simple CMOS problem (come to think of it i did change the CMOS jumper,
wonder if i changed it back)

oh i bet its that!!!



 




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