Re: System failure, no video, strange beeps
- From: "DaveW" <radiation@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 08:50:33 -0800
Either the PSU or, more likely, the motherboard has failed.
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--DaveW
"John" <fakeaddress@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have an older system based on a P4PE2-X. It's been running without
any trouble until today and suddenly it's dead. The symptoms are
these:
I turn on the system and it appears to power up (fans run, I can hear
the HDD spin up) but there is nothing on the monitor. In fact the
monitor indicates "No signal." There are no beeps from the speaker
After about 5 seconds the system shuts down, then after a few seconds
it starts up again, and stays on. Now there is a constant, very rapid
stream of beeps from the speaker. (I mean like machine-gun rapid, not
like anythng I'd expect for bee codes.) The fans are turning, the HDD
access light stays on for maybe 30 seconds then goes off, and the
CDROM access light blinks for a while then stops. But the monitor
still indicates "No signal"
The lack of any output to the monitor makes me think the video card
has died. But this doesn't seem to explain the
power-down/power-back-up behavior, and I don't think the beeping is
right for a video card failure. (I haven't been able to find a list
of beep codes for this board, but this doesn't sound typical of any
deliberately-generated error code.)
Does anybody have any thoughts about what's going on? Is it likely to
be something other than the video card, and if so, what?
Reply-to address is real
John
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