AMI BIOS Bleep code

[Peter]

Unpredictable and nasty happenings forced me to change my
motherboard. The new motherboard has an AMI BIOS which, without any
system changes being made, sometimes does a short bleep and sometimes
a long one during startup.

Looking on the net I have found a number lists of AMI BIOS bleep codes
but none mentions a long single bleep. Please can someone tell me
what it means? (I have removed and reseated the two 256Mb DIMMs with
no effect).

The OS is XP Pro, re-installed and activated without query following
the fitting of the new M\Board, has not shown any symptoms of
distress.

TIA for any help.

Peter

Also posted at alt.comp.bios

 

[Guest]

One beep tells you all is ok and is ready to start.

 

[Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\)]

Andrew

That would be a short bleep..

--
Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/User

 

[frodo]

a single long beep, repeating every 2-3 seconds, w/ no other activity
means it does not like the memory and can not proceed. sometimes a cmos
clear can get it going if you downgraded your mem sticks and it's trying
to use old too-fast timings.