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Recently my computer has been great. I've had it for 9 months now and it's been fantastic. Today i logon and install some updates for some commonly used programs, games, software etc. I go to restart my PC and as it's about to reboot i hear this beep.

The beep noise was as follows

1 Long beep (2 secsonds) then directly after that beep (No space) i hear 2 fast beeps like 1 after the other.

Now i've assumed from my knowledge at least this would be a video issue. I've taken it out and put it back. Left my computer power free for 1 hour. I've tried the memory on another PC and the memory is fine. Im actually scared to try a CMOS reset cuz im not exactly sure what im doing.

I was wondering if anyone else has some suggestions.

I have a 6600 Ultra 256mb PCI-X graphics card
AMD 64 Athlon 3400+
Gigabyte K8N Motherboard
1GB of Ram

Those are the only things i think are relevant as of now.

Any help is greatly appreciated.
 
Forgot to add also. On my monitor i get a "No signal" box with 3 colours on it.

I guess this is leaning more and more towards a video card problem >

Again. I could be completely wrong. Any suggestions help :)
 
Yea im beginning to think the same thing.

I'm pretty confident, so ill probably buy a new card tomorrow.

The whole No Signal issue and the fact the beep code matches several website's descriptions. Im 95% sure its a video card issue now.
 
Yes, thats video, try cleaning the contacts with a pensil eraser and re-inserting.

Is it an AGP card? they can take a lot of fiddling sometime, then suddenly will just work again.
Highly likely a bad card though, seeing you have already reseated the card.
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Conor Power said:
Recently my computer has been great. I've had it for 9 months now
and it's been fantastic. Today i logon and install some updates for
some commonly used programs, games, software etc. I go to restart
my PC and as it's about to reboot i hear this beep.

The beep noise was as follows

1 Long beep (2 secsonds) then directly after that beep (No space) i
hear 2 fast beeps like 1 after the other.

Now i've assumed from my knowledge at least this would be a video
issue. I've taken it out and put it back. Left my computer power
free for 1 hour. I've tried the memory on another PC and the memory
is fine. Im actually scared to try a CMOS reset cuz im not exactly
sure what im doing.

I was wondering if anyone else has some suggestions.

I have a 6600 Ultra 256mb PCI-X graphics card
AMD 64 Athlon 3400+
Gigabyte K8N Motherboard
1GB of Ram

Those are the only things i think are relevant as of now.

Any help is greatly appreciated.
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If you are running XP and have provisions to do a System Restore using a date prior to this problem -- this would help to see if some (one or more) of the software updates/installs is what caused the problem.

If I had just completed updates as you mentioned, I would consider the updates to be "Highly Suspecting" of causing the problem rather than your Video card just conveniently going bad at this time.
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work PC. Took the video card out and dropped it about 10" on to a desk and reinstalled it. That was about a year ago and it still works fine.
 
Yea venom i would try to system restore but i cant even see my bios or desktop due to the fact my monitor just gives me a "No Signal" message. How else could i go about accessing my BIOS or getting to my desktop?
 
So u suggest i take out my video card and drop it? :D

Will putting it into the black PCI - Exp slot do any good?

It is a PCI-Express card btw.
 
In theory it has to be the video card. If you never get any DOS text come up on screen it has to be favourite, as little else is used to get that far just the CPU/RAM/Video, and the fact that you get POST beeps means that the CPU/bios has the brains and capability to do that , which leaves the video card. Theory and practice don't always agree though:-)
 
Sounds to me like a bad driver for the video card - as I recall, you said you were updating some system stuff. Before buying a new video card, I'd suggest booting into Safe Mode.

Safe mode will use an operating system generic driver for video. If you get this far, your problem is the driver not the card. While in safe mode right-click My Computer, click properties, click hardware, click device manager, click display adapter. Go to driver and roll it back to the previous version.

This is easier and safer than doing a system restore, especially since you have several updated patches recently installed.

If rolling back does not work, right-click the display adapter and uninstall and reboot.

Hope that helps.

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Game software can mess with video settings. Perhaps the updates you've applied call for more capability than your system provides.

If rolling back the driver doesn't work, again go in through Safe Mode and go to control panel-add/delete programs-delete your newly patched games. If this works, great, you can always reinstall the games, though maybe you might have to reconsider the update patch.

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Just get another video card to try in it,. borrow one or take one out of another system temporarily.
 
Windows video drivers aren't needed to get to the BIOS or DOS (like) screen.
 
Some of you are telling me that display drivers are causing the issue. I've stated i didnt update my display drivers. All i updated was WoW and AVG.

I cannot access the bios due the fact i have no onboard and no extra video card so i have no display at all.

I even took out my video card and tried booting up and got the same beeps with no video card or monitor plug in my machine. Could this imply a different issue?

So how can i access my BIOS etc. if i have no display what so ever.
 
Conor,

Breezing thorugh the posts I did not see that you tried another video card. If you have a second computer around you can borrow a card from I would do that first as a test. In my experience that beep code has been for a video problem and sometimes re-seating the card solidly takes care of it. At work once we did have that problem and it turned out to be the AGP socket on the motherboard, but that has only happened once in 10 years. I have had several video cards go bad within the warranty period and have had them replaced by the manufacturer. Some have caused the beep codes and others have had no video at all - just depends on what the particular problem with the card is. If you don't have a second computer I would recommend picking up a super-cheap video card just to have on hand for such circumstances.
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Yea. Thanks for the input. Unforunately the only PC i have extra in the house is an onboard graphics computer. I was able to test the ram on this PC in my own and i still got the same error. So i've ruled out memory. The only other option is MOBO / Video card.

Like i said above. THe confusing part is, i cant tell if its 1 long and 2 short or 1 long and 1 short. It's definetly 1 long but it's followed by what sounds like 2 really fast beeps put together. Im taking my video card to a shop tomorrow (I had a chat with the technican today) i've put a deposit down on an ICE Chill 7900 512mb card which was only 85$. If it turns out to be the video card i guess the new one will suffice.

It's just annoying because, i had no issue with the video card before i restarted my PC. As soon as i restart bam these beeps start coming.

Thx for the support guys.

Also. Apparently GIGBYTE Mobo's when purchased from stores dont supply jump cables. So i cant reset my CMOS to test that lol.

Just my luck :(
 
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