Help withsetup!!

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I'll start this off by listing the specs:

ASUS P4C800-E Motherboard
Patriot 1GB PC3200 Memory
Maxtor DiamondMax 9 120GB HD
Seagate Baracuda 7200.? 160GB HD
EVGA GeForce 6800GT
ASUS True 480W PSU
Sony 52X CD-RW
IBM 48X CD-ROM
4 Case Fans (2 Intake, 2 Exhaust)

So here's the deal... I just put this all together tonight, and now when I power up the computer, I get this constant and VERY LOUD high pitched tone from the speaker. I reseated everything, checked all my connections, everything seems kosher. I still get the screech of death

As I am typing this, I am praying that nothing is fried.... I don't see any reason for anything to be fried whatsoever, and I will be royally upset if anything is dead

I can't do anything tonight, as my roommate just went to bed, and this is loud enough to wake the dead up.

i checked through the manual that came with the motherboard to no avail. Tomorrow morning I am going to re-gut everything and do a process of elimination, but if someone else has any remedy for this, this will help matters greatly.

I'm gonna go watch a movie and chill out before I flip out, I'll check back...

 

[[H]ea\/y B]

Being that you are a fellow LF'er I feel it is my obligation to at least come in here and see what's going on.

Yank everything but a stick of ram, vid card, and CPU. Put memory in Slot 1 and power up. Do that with both sticks. Also, make sure nothing my by shorting to the case.


Das

 

[[H]ea\/y B]

Repeating (endless loop)
Memory error
Check for improperly seated or missing memory.

 

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Repeating (endless loop)
Memory error
Check for improperly seated or missing memory.

The thing is, its not doing a constant, looping beep.

From the minute it comes on, it's just one long, loud constant beep... no stopping whatsoever.

I didn't connect it up to any monitor, keyboard or stuff like that yet.. .I was just checking to make sure I got all my connections right before I went and hooked all the external stuff back up.

What really sucks is I can't do much work to it right now, since my roommate just went to bed....

 

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Being that you are a fellow LF'er I feel it is my obligation to at least come in here and see what's going on.

Yank everything but a stick of ram, vid card, and CPU. Put memory in Slot 1 and power up. Do that with both sticks. Also, make sure nothing my by shorting to the case.


Das

I think that's first on my list of stuff to do tomorrow.

One thing I noticed on ASUS's website is that they don't list Patriot as one of the choice manufacturer's of memory to use on the motherboard.

Also, would the CAS / latency be an issue with the board perhaps?

I'll double check with the shorting... one thing that really bothers me about my case is that there are really only 6 mounting holes for any motherboard, and I know the book recommends using all 9 holes on the board.

Something tells me I'm going to have to hit RatShack tomorrow and make some quick purchases...

 

[[H]ea\/y B]

RAS / CAS wouldn't cause that typically. If the memory timings were off then you would never make it to windows. But it would still boot to the point you could get into the BIOS or just clear it.

 

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RAS / CAS wouldn't cause that typically. If the memory timings were off then you would never make it to windows. But it would still boot to the point you could get into the BIOS or just clear it.

Well, in that event, I'm assuming that I can adjust the timings in the BIOS so things match up?

This was one of the things I was afraid of happening. i'll see what I can do though.

 

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So here's what I done so far:

I brought the system down to barebones (Video, CPU, 1 stick of RAM, no CD drives, and only 2 case fans. I checked both sticks of RAM, and both were giving me the same error. I even took the memory out altogether, still the same old beep.

Now, with my case (Antec Soho File Server), it appears that there are 6 of these gold-colored things that you mount the motherboard on. The book recommends using all 9 mounting points on the motherboard, and I am wondering if they are attributing to the problem.

What I plan to do next is gut everything back out, and go back through with a closer eye. That way I can tell for sure if something was amiss.

One thing that may sound crazy was I omitted the floppy drive and the game port. I have no use for floppies at the moment, and the game port is of no use to me. Would the motherboard be bitching about the lack of those 2 items?

Even still, the floppy would add to the power already consumed by everything listed in the OP, and is unneccessary. Is there something I need to set beacuse of the missing floppy?

 

[[H]ea\/y B]

The lack of a floppy or game port would have nothing to do with your problems. Neither is required for the mobo to operate as there are plenty of people who no longer use Floppy Drives. Sounds like bad board or bad memory.

 

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The lack of a floppy or game port would have nothing to do with your problems. Neither is required for the mobo to operate as there are plenty of people who no longer use Floppy Drives. Sounds like bad board or bad memory.

How about the mounting points on the mobo?

I thought that the mounting points had something to do with grounding the board to the chassis?

In any event, I am going to rip it bvack apart tonight and put it back together again to see iif there was something I might have missed.

 

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So to follow up...

.... I am setting up 2k as we speak

It turns out that I overlooked a power connection with the video card, and it was bitching at me for not doing so.

Funny thing was, when I did that connection and turned it back on, and no screeching occured, I jumped for joy..... until it started posting a memory error beep code

I looked down about to go into a coniption fit............ and forgot to put thememory modules back in.

So yeah..... everything is kosher now, and I will now close this

Thanks to all that helped!!!