No BIOS beep code

[JJ Johnson]

I have an old system that I'm trying to resurrect. I think it's been about 18 months or so since I've powered it on. It's built on an ASUS A8N-SLI Premium, socket 939 motherboard and AMD Athlon 64 X2 CPU.

I wasn't getting any BIOS output on the monitor and no beep codes through the speaker, so I stripped it down to CPU only. I've probably powered it up 15 times or so and on _one_ occasion got a BIOS beep code of one long, two short beeps, which I believe indicates a memory error. Which makes sense.

The only other observation I have is that the power light displays normally when on, and I have no problem powering it down via the power button on the case.

But why would I usually get no beep codes at all? Could it be the battery?

 

[DrLobotomy]

Yes. Very well can be the battery. If it sat that long unplugged then that dude is probably drained.