Re: P4S8X beeps Hi-Lo-Hi-Lo

Christoph Kukulies wrote:
Have swpped an ASUS P4S8X into a new box. BTW, found that the board
deforms quite heavily under the load of the CPU cooler press down
force and had to put a rubber bumper under the board so that it
wouldn't touch the sheet metal bottom. Hope it didn't suffer any
damage meanwhile.

Anyway, what is new now is that I have put a P4 3.0 GHz (or is it 3.02
or 3.2? - not sure at the moment when writing this) in it and put in
two 1GB Ram bars (Samsung PC3200U-30331-EO 1GB DDR PC3200 CL3) into
it.

Also I in lack of a better graphics card a Matrox G200 AGB is in it.

No keyboard is connected yet but I was hoping to get a BIOS screean at
the least.
Instead the only thing what happens after powering on is a alternating
beep, starting 0.5 sec HI, 0.5 sec LO (an octave, FWIW), roughly.

What could be wrong. Any source for the beep codes somewhere?

That's a pretty standard code for CPU overheating. If the heatsink
isn't mounted properly and not contacting the CPU as it should, the CPU
can overheat very quickly and the BIOS will give the "siren" sound.
It's also possible the CPU heatsink fan is not plugged into the proper
socket, or the fan is not spinning, or spinning fast enough for what the
BIOS expects. You did use a thin coat of thermal compound between the
CPU and heatsink?


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