Bios Beeps

[Guest]

I have checked every piece of hardware, I replaced the power supply and tried
adding a new video card, but I am still getting no screen and on boot one
long and two short beeps, which apparently conclude that the onboard VGA is
bad in the motherboard and with no way to get to the BIOS to disable the
onboard video or enable a new card, what else could this be?

Are we talking about, it's time to scrap this 4 year old??

Daddio

 

[Malke]

I have checked every piece of hardware, I replaced the power supply
and tried adding a new video card, but I am still getting no screen
and on boot one long and two short beeps, which apparently conclude
that the onboard VGA is bad in the motherboard and with no way to get
to the BIOS to disable the onboard video or enable a new card, what
else could this be?

Are we talking about, it's time to scrap this 4 year old??

Does "checked every piece of hardware" include the RAM? If yes, then I
would say messing about with a 4-year-old motherboard is a waste of
time.

Malke

 

[Pop`]

I have checked every piece of hardware, I replaced the power supply
and tried adding a new video card, but I am still getting no screen
and on boot one long and two short beeps, which apparently conclude
that the onboard VGA is bad in the motherboard and with no way to get
to the BIOS to disable the onboard video or enable a new card, what
else could this be?

Are we talking about, it's time to scrap this 4 year old??

Daddio

Check to see if there is a jumper setting for onboard/external video card.
Is so, you could swap in most any video card to see if that's the problem,
and go from there.

I'm not so sure it's time to make a boat anchor out of the system yet, but
that would be your decision, of course. Sometimes it's the easiest way out.

Pop`

 

[3c273]

Depending on your motherboard manufacturer, if their documentation is good
enough you may be able to change the settings blindly. I just looked at a
Gigabyte G8-K8A480M-9 manual and they have a picture of every setup screen.
Just navigate using the map in the manual. Also, if you have access to
another machine with the same BIOS, you could practice the keystrokes
necessary to change the video settings. If you bugger something up, you can
always pull out the battery and it should go back to factory defaults. I
have successfull performed this operation before but your mileage may vary.
Louis

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I have checked every piece of hardware, I replaced the power supply and tried
adding a new video card, but I am still getting no screen and on boot one
long and two short beeps, which apparently conclude that the onboard VGA is
bad in the motherboard and with no way to get to the BIOS to disable the
onboard video or enable a new card, what else could this be?

Are we talking about, it's time to scrap this 4 year old??

Daddio

It's certainly time for a new motherboard, it would seem.

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Bruce Chambers

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