A7V8X-X making two short beeps and having startup issues

[Stanley Krute]

Hi

My A7V8X-X is making two short beeps while running, repeatedly, like this:

beep beep (15 to 20 seconds) beep beep (15 to 20 seconds) beep beep ..........

Asus Probe shows temperatures all cool (70° F for mobo, 90° for processor)
and all voltages nominal.

This system also has one other quirk: on a cold startup it always fails the first
time. I shut it off. Then restart, and I'm in the BIOS, with it telling me that
I had the processor speed set wrong. But I didn't.

Thoughts ? thanks

Stan

 

[Ed T]

It will do this is you are running Win98SE power saver settings to turn off
hard
drives after x minutes. The fix for me was to disable that feature in Win98.
I don't know if MS fixed that in XP. My XP box has the feature disabled as
well.
ed

 

[Mike Gorman]

Although I couldn't find a specific listing of award beep codes, in general
repetitive beeps would tend to indicate bad memory. Try another stick if
you can.

 

[Stanley Krute]

Hi Ed

It will do this is you are running Win98SE power saver settings to turn off
hard
drives after x minutes. The fix for me was to disable that feature in Win98.
I don't know if MS fixed that in XP. My XP box has the feature disabled as
well.

I'm running XP, but have that, and all other power-saving khuzzerai
turned off.

Thanks for the thought.

Stan

 

[Stanley Krute]

Hi Mike

Although I couldn't find a specific listing of award beep codes, in general
repetitive beeps would tend to indicate bad memory. Try another stick if
you can.

I found some Award beep codes here:

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

No mention of two short beeps.

I found some AMI beep codes here:

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

and they DO mention two short beeps as indicating
memory problems.

This motherboard has had memory problems all along ... in
earlier posts, I mentioned how it had troubles with 1.5 GB,
and so I've been running it at 1 GB .... perhaps the mobo is
faulty .... the startup issue, with the spurious speed warning,
may be another indicator of board problems .... hmmm .....

I'll play with memory sticks and report back ...

Thanks Mike.

Stan

 

[6bal]

Hi Mike


I found some Award beep codes here:

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

No mention of two short beeps.

I found some AMI beep codes here:

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

and they DO mention two short beeps as indicating
memory problems.

This motherboard has had memory problems all along ... in
earlier posts, I mentioned how it had troubles with 1.5 GB,
and so I've been running it at 1 GB .... perhaps the mobo is
faulty .... the startup issue, with the spurious speed warning,
may be another indicator of board problems .... hmmm .....

I'll play with memory sticks and report back ...

Kind of funny that it would boot if memory was failing. Do you have
any other problems , like lots of crashing ?