matttaylor
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Processor: AMD 64 3500+ Venice 939
Processor Cooling: Zalmon CNPS7700
Mobo: Asus A8N-SLI Premium
PSU: Seasonic SS-401HT 400W (S12-430 OEM)
Case: Silverstone LC17
RAM: 1Gb (2x 512MB DDR400 PC3200) Corsair TWINX1024-3200C2PT
HD: Samsung Spinpoint 250GB SATA II
Graphics: Gigabyte 6600GT Fanless PCIe (GV-NX66T128VP)
I've just put the above system together and it is not booting.
The fans and the hard disk are all firing up each time but that's pretty much all.
The main symptom is that I'm not getting any output from the graphics card.
I'm torn between the mother board and the graphics card as being the problem.
The last set of tests I performed resulted in 1 long beep & 2 short beeps (Failure in video system) from the motherboard which points to the graphics card.
If that was all then I could definitely say that the problem was with the card.
The confusing thing is that the motherboard has been really inconsistent in producing beeps which makes me think it is playing up.
Most of the time it just doesn't produce any beeps at all when booting giving me no indication of the fault.
To begin with the board wasn't producing any beeps at all.
Then I removed all the memory and got 3 short beeps (Base 64K memory failure) which is fine.
Putting both 512 MB sticks back in and again no beeps.
With just one stick in it will stop complaining about the memory and produce 1 long beep & 2 short.
Upon rebooting it may beep again or may just remain silent.
I even tried it without the processor once and it didn't beep.
I would greatly appreciate some pointers on how to get to the bottom of the problem or ideas of what could be the problem.
Unfortunately I don't have any compatible hardware I could swap about.
Thanks,
Matt
Processor Cooling: Zalmon CNPS7700
Mobo: Asus A8N-SLI Premium
PSU: Seasonic SS-401HT 400W (S12-430 OEM)
Case: Silverstone LC17
RAM: 1Gb (2x 512MB DDR400 PC3200) Corsair TWINX1024-3200C2PT
HD: Samsung Spinpoint 250GB SATA II
Graphics: Gigabyte 6600GT Fanless PCIe (GV-NX66T128VP)
I've just put the above system together and it is not booting.
The fans and the hard disk are all firing up each time but that's pretty much all.
The main symptom is that I'm not getting any output from the graphics card.
I'm torn between the mother board and the graphics card as being the problem.
The last set of tests I performed resulted in 1 long beep & 2 short beeps (Failure in video system) from the motherboard which points to the graphics card.
If that was all then I could definitely say that the problem was with the card.
The confusing thing is that the motherboard has been really inconsistent in producing beeps which makes me think it is playing up.
Most of the time it just doesn't produce any beeps at all when booting giving me no indication of the fault.
To begin with the board wasn't producing any beeps at all.
Then I removed all the memory and got 3 short beeps (Base 64K memory failure) which is fine.
Putting both 512 MB sticks back in and again no beeps.
With just one stick in it will stop complaining about the memory and produce 1 long beep & 2 short.
Upon rebooting it may beep again or may just remain silent.
I even tried it without the processor once and it didn't beep.
I would greatly appreciate some pointers on how to get to the bottom of the problem or ideas of what could be the problem.
Unfortunately I don't have any compatible hardware I could swap about.
Thanks,
Matt