Not posting

[Abbaddon]

Running an Asus P4S800, with a 9600, 2.6

1 stick of Samsung 512 memory ddr400
and 2 sticks of 512 ddr400 generic memory.

1 gig.

When I turn on the computer sometimes, there's a long beep followed by 3 short beeps. It won't post, but I know it gets into windows because alt+f4 shuts it down once it's done booting.

And I can hear the windows music when I boot up as well.

It doesn't do this all the time though.

I've noticed it does it almost all the time on a cold boot though.

Thanks in advance

 

[BLsibub666]

well look up your MoBo and see what the beeps meen.

if your saying that there is no post yet you hear windows load then it must be posting, and your just not seeing it (right) so, it kinda sounds like its something with your vid card, update the drivers, take the card out, and put it back in, you may want to go into your bios to see if bios is looking for a pci vid card instead of an agp (not nesesary but hell why not)

thats all i got, hopfully some one elce will jump in with their $0.02

good luck

 

[Ahriman]

Going to have to agree with the man/woman above me... if you hear windows that means it's definitely posting. Something is screwy with your vid card. Do as he said and look up the beep code and try to fiddle around with the card a bit. Maybe you just need to reseat it. Who knows.

 

[Abbaddon]

Yeah, I figured it out.

The head of the video card screw had broken off and was grounding on the board.


good hting it still works.

hehe... :S