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Date:	Fri, 9 Feb 2001 12:46:41 PST
From:	Tom Brown <thombrown@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Video card troubles - help needed

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Peter,
I believe the cause is the video card (motherboard MAY have killed it???)
because my monitor is not getting a signal. The monitor is fine. I have a
KVM switch and I am using it on another system to type this. Second, I took
the ATi card back to West Tech in Mission Viejo where I bought it and they
tested it in one of their systems, said it was bad, and gave me a new one.

The Award web site says that the only beep code is one long and two short
beeps signifying a bad video card. Listening to it again, there ARE two
short beeps at the end although they are nearly run together.

I have tried the latest PCI video card in two different PCI slots, the one
next to the AGP slot and the one next to that. with the same results. I have
not had time yet to take out the rest of the cards. What I REALLY want is a
Matrox G450, but I'm afraid that if I spend the bucks and plug it into my
motherboard, that it will end up dead as well as the other two cards that I
have. I would like to get the system working again before I make that step.

Tom Brown

Peter Skye wrote:

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> Tom Brown wrote:
> >
> > I got one long beeeeeeep
>
> Tom,
>
> You don't say why you think the cause is the video card, so apologies if
> the following is useless. :-)
> _____
>
> The motherboard's BIOS has a number of different "beep codes" (POST, or
> Power On Self Test, codes) to alert you when it can't complete its
> processing and thus can't continue on and boot your operating system.
>
> Unfortunately, different BIOS manufacturers have different codes.
>
> First: Check the documentation which came with your motherboard. It
> may list the "beep codes", including your "one long beep".
>
> Second: Go to the BIOS manufacturer's web site (okay, call a friend and
> have _them_ go to the BIOS web site) and download the doc file for your
> particular BIOS. Look up the beep codes.
>
> Third: Email the motherboard manufacturer's tech support and ask them
> what "one long beep" means.
>
> The last time I had a video card failure, the error beep code for that
> particular motherboard BIOS was two short beeps. (The motherboard was
> too old to handle my new Elsa card.)
> _____
>
> Gary's response of "reseat everything" is a good one. It's only a
> two-minute job, and frankly you might just want to pull out _everything_
> (including the video card _and_ your motherboard memory) and start
> putting things back in one at a time. (Power should be off when
> removing or inserting stuff.) The "beep code table" for your BIOS is in
> sequence by the tests done by that BIOS (at least mine are) so it's a
> good sequence in which to plug the stuff back in.
> _____
>
> Here are some BIOS urls from my home page (haven't checked 'em
> recently):
>
>