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Random single beeps from motherboard while running Windows
For the past few months my motherboard has been emiting single long
beeps while running Windows. It's really driving me nut that I can not figure out what's causing this. Specs: Foxconn 945P7AA-8EKRS2 Chipset: Intel® 945P + Intel® ICH7R Processsor:: P4 Prescott 800MHZ FSB Ram: 2 Kingston 1GB DDR2 667 Video Card: SAPPHIRE 100164L Radeon X1650PRO 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 CrossFire Supported BIOS ID: Phoenix-Award BIOS Date: December 15th 2005 BIOS ID: 12/15/2005-LakePort-6A79HFKCC-00-None BIOS OEM: i945 Series 515F1P38 121505 - 6.00 PG Chipset: Intel 2770 rev 129 SuperIO: ITE 8712F rev 7 at port 002E OS: Windows XP Pro, SP 2 with most of the available security patches installed. 3 internal sata drives, 1 floppy, 1 dvd burner. 500 watt PSU. I built this machine in January 2007. The pc boots fine and only emits the single short beep at post. It will run for days without beeping. Yesterday I had it on for about 2 hours before it beeped. It will beep when it's doing absolutely nothing, running the screensaver or transfering files, I took the side panel off the case thinking the problem might be heat but it still beeps. The case has 2 good fans and I installed a huge heat sink fan on the processor. The bios is set to monitor the cpu temp and shut the machine down before it gets too hot. I've run Memtest + and Windows Memory Diagnostic on the ram, no problems found. I've tried looking up the beep tones for the bios but I can't tell if I should be looking at Award or Phoenix codes. Also, I'm not getting error tones on post but while to OS is up and running fine. I can't find anything in the Widows Event viewer that's of any help either. I've used PC Wizard and Everest Home to look at the hardware and both report the the board has no battery. It does have a battery and I have no symptoms of battery problems. The time/date is always correct, the machine hangs on to the bios settings between boots. I have SOME minor problems with this machine: it seems slow while logging on even though I've cleared out the prefetch folder a few times. It's slow to log off and shut down. I get frequent shell crashes especially when moving video files. I can't drag and drop to the recycle bin, the pc freezes and the cursor vanishes, I have to use the "delete" key. I'd like to be able to use this machine to re-encode video. I have a big collection of vhs I'm trying to transfer to dvd. I can't do this now because i dare not leave this pc running unattended. Should I just bite the bullet and buy another motherboard while there are still a few available that support the rest of my hardware? Any ideas, hints, tips, suggestions? |
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Random single beeps from motherboard while running Windows
"cookiebun" wrote in message . .. For the past few months my motherboard has been emiting single long beeps while running Windows. It's really driving me nut that I can not figure out what's causing this. Specs: Foxconn 945P7AA-8EKRS2 Chipset: Intel® 945P + Intel® ICH7R Processsor:: P4 Prescott 800MHZ FSB Ram: 2 Kingston 1GB DDR2 667 Video Card: SAPPHIRE 100164L Radeon X1650PRO 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 CrossFire Supported BIOS ID: Phoenix-Award BIOS Date: December 15th 2005 BIOS ID: 12/15/2005-LakePort-6A79HFKCC-00-None BIOS OEM: i945 Series 515F1P38 121505 - 6.00 PG Chipset: Intel 2770 rev 129 SuperIO: ITE 8712F rev 7 at port 002E OS: Windows XP Pro, SP 2 with most of the available security patches installed. 3 internal sata drives, 1 floppy, 1 dvd burner. 500 watt PSU. I built this machine in January 2007. The pc boots fine and only emits the single short beep at post. It will run for days without beeping. Yesterday I had it on for about 2 hours before it beeped. It will beep when it's doing absolutely nothing, running the screensaver or transfering files, I took the side panel off the case thinking the problem might be heat but it still beeps. The case has 2 good fans and I installed a huge heat sink fan on the processor. The bios is set to monitor the cpu temp and shut the machine down before it gets too hot. I've run Memtest + and Windows Memory Diagnostic on the ram, no problems found. I've tried looking up the beep tones for the bios but I can't tell if I should be looking at Award or Phoenix codes. Also, I'm not getting error tones on post but while to OS is up and running fine. I can't find anything in the Widows Event viewer that's of any help either. I've used PC Wizard and Everest Home to look at the hardware and both report the the board has no battery. It does have a battery and I have no symptoms of battery problems. The time/date is always correct, the machine hangs on to the bios settings between boots. I have SOME minor problems with this machine: it seems slow while logging on even though I've cleared out the prefetch folder a few times. It's slow to log off and shut down. I get frequent shell crashes especially when moving video files. I can't drag and drop to the recycle bin, the pc freezes and the cursor vanishes, I have to use the "delete" key. I'd like to be able to use this machine to re-encode video. I have a big collection of vhs I'm trying to transfer to dvd. I can't do this now because i dare not leave this pc running unattended. Should I just bite the bullet and buy another motherboard while there are still a few available that support the rest of my hardware? Any ideas, hints, tips, suggestions? manual here http://www.foxconnchannel.com/suppor...D=en-us0000001 says Phoenix - Award bios...which is not real helpful Even though your RAM did not fail the test... I'd try some different RAM or run it on one stick at a time if possible |
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Random single beeps from motherboard while running Windows
cookiebun wrote:
For the past few months my motherboard has been emiting single long beeps while running Windows. It's really driving me nut that I can not figure out what's causing this. Specs: Foxconn 945P7AA-8EKRS2 Chipset: Intel® 945P + Intel® ICH7R Processsor:: P4 Prescott 800MHZ FSB Ram: 2 Kingston 1GB DDR2 667 Video Card: SAPPHIRE 100164L Radeon X1650PRO 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 CrossFire Supported BIOS ID: Phoenix-Award BIOS Date: December 15th 2005 BIOS ID: 12/15/2005-LakePort-6A79HFKCC-00-None BIOS OEM: i945 Series 515F1P38 121505 - 6.00 PG Chipset: Intel 2770 rev 129 SuperIO: ITE 8712F rev 7 at port 002E OS: Windows XP Pro, SP 2 with most of the available security patches installed. 3 internal sata drives, 1 floppy, 1 dvd burner. 500 watt PSU. I built this machine in January 2007. [snip] The BIOS ID is right in your post above: BIOS ID: Phoenix-Award. It's an Award BIOS. Award BIOS beep codes here, http://bioscentral.com/beepcodes/awardbeep.htm , indicate a CPU overheating problem. Your description of the system running slow, etc. could be due to the CPU being throttled back to a slower speed when it gets too hot. If I recall, P4s were known for getting very hot. I would remove the heatsink, clean it and the CPU really well and reinstall the heatsink with a THIN layer of heatsink compound. Also, make sure the rest of the inside is cleaned out. If that is not the problem, or you are absolutely certain the CPU is not overheating, I would suspect the power supply is going bad. Check all the power connections and make sure there are no signs of burned, or melted pins. Check the voltages at the ATX connector with a DVM and make sure they're all within tolerance (+-5% of the proper voltage). Don't forget the extra +12V connector for the CPU if your MB uses one. |
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Random single beeps from motherboard while running Windows
cookiebun wrote:
In article , lid says... cookiebun wrote: snip [snip] The BIOS ID is right in your post above: BIOS ID: Phoenix-Award. It's an Award BIOS. Award BIOS beep codes here, http://bioscentral.com/beepcodes/awardbeep.htm , indicate a CPU overheating problem. Your description of the system running slow, etc. could be due to the CPU being throttled back to a slower speed when it gets too hot. If I recall, P4s were known for getting very hot. I would remove the heatsink, clean it and the CPU really well and reinstall the heatsink with a THIN layer of heatsink compound. Also, make sure the rest of the inside is cleaned out. snip I think I'm getting the "repeating high/low they mentioned. My P4 can take up to 67c, it usually runs at about 30c. I put a huge heat sink on this thing: http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Ha...ttgoldenorbII/ I'd have to take the board out of the case to get it off the processor. Not the Golder Orb!! I remember that heatsink/fan and it wasn't known for being very efficient at all, although I didn't know they made one that large! I found a couple apps that measure the temperature of the video card and mine was running REALLY HOT! I took the heat sink off that and re- applied thermal paste. Dropped the temp on the card 10-15 degrees. I wonder if it was baking the cpu with all the heat comming off it. Added a pci slot fan to pull more heat out of the case and away from the card and CPU. Will have a friend test the power supply with a meter this weekend. Thanks everybody. It's possible the extra heat from the video card was making the CPU temp artificially high. It's good that you've got the temp down. Good case air flow is also very important. Also, make sure the fan on the CPU heatsink is spinning as fast as the MB expects. If the fan slows down while the system's running, it can lead to high CPU temps and/or you may be getting an alert that the fan is too slow. Check in the BIOS for settings for CPU fan speed and alert threshold settings. |
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Random single beeps from motherboard while running Windows
Somewhere on teh intarwebs "RobV" typed:
cookiebun wrote: In article , lid says... cookiebun wrote: snip [snip] The BIOS ID is right in your post above: BIOS ID: Phoenix-Award. It's an Award BIOS. Award BIOS beep codes here, http://bioscentral.com/beepcodes/awardbeep.htm , indicate a CPU overheating problem. Your description of the system running slow, etc. could be due to the CPU being throttled back to a slower speed when it gets too hot. If I recall, P4s were known for getting very hot. I would remove the heatsink, clean it and the CPU really well and reinstall the heatsink with a THIN layer of heatsink compound. Also, make sure the rest of the inside is cleaned out. snip I think I'm getting the "repeating high/low they mentioned. My P4 can take up to 67c, it usually runs at about 30c. I put a huge heat sink on this thing: http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Ha...ttgoldenorbII/ I'd have to take the board out of the case to get it off the processor. Not the Golder Orb!! I remember that heatsink/fan and it wasn't known for being very efficient at all, although I didn't know they made one that large! Make up your mind. You either remeber "it" or you don't. There were many 'Orbs" made by Thermaltake, quite a few of them golden. The original Golden Orb was pretty much the forerunner of affordable after-market CPU heatsinks and was considerably more efficient than Intel HSFs of the time. Tt lost the plot with the orb range a bit when other manufacturers came along and gave competition, producing some very niosy and some not-so-great models. However, the original was a great cooler. The Golden Orb II is, like the original Golden Orb, a reasonably-priced after-market HSF that is better at cooling a CPU than the standard (at the time) Intel HSF. Sure, it ain't up to the standards of some of today's coolers but it's an improvement over stock on an old Prescott. I found a couple apps that measure the temperature of the video card and mine was running REALLY HOT! I took the heat sink off that and re- applied thermal paste. Dropped the temp on the card 10-15 degrees. I wonder if it was baking the cpu with all the heat comming off it. Added a pci slot fan to pull more heat out of the case and away from the card and CPU. Will have a friend test the power supply with a meter this weekend. Thanks everybody. It's possible the extra heat from the video card was making the CPU temp artificially high. It's good that you've got the temp down. Good case air flow is also very important. Also, make sure the fan on the CPU heatsink is spinning as fast as the MB expects. If the fan slows down while the system's running, it can lead to high CPU temps and/or you may be getting an alert that the fan is too slow. Check in the BIOS for settings for CPU fan speed and alert threshold settings. The Tt golden Orb fan runs at 1.5K rpm standard so you could be onto something there. If there is a BIOS routine enabled that adjusts CPU fan speed that could be a possible cause of the beeping. You shouldn't use a 'variable' setting with a cooler like the Tt GO II, it's quiet enough at it's default speed. Another thing to consider is northbridge temp, although one would think with that Tt throwing air 360° it should be keeping the NB cool. -- Shaun. DISCLAIMER: If you find a posting or message from me offensive, inappropriate, or disruptive, please ignore it. If you don't know how to ignore a posting, complain to me and I will be only too happy to demonstrate... ;-) |
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