PC crashed

[abhissekk]

I just lost my third computer...
The story goes like this, I just finished installing my 5.1 speakers and fired up CounterStrike. The moniter(A CRT) started making weird noises. I exited the game and the noise also disappeared. I was curious. I changed my desktop res to 800x600 and the noise returned. Then suddenly the moniter went blank.

I was sure that my CRT had broken but to my surprise my PC had hanged(the caps lock key's lights did not toggle). When i restarted it, it did not POST and gave a long continous beep which only stopped when i pulled the power cable.

Any idea what might be wrong
The config is as follows:
Intel Celeron 1.7 Ghz
256 MB RAM
GeForce 2 MX400 64 MB
VIA chipset(donno which one exactly)
80 GB(40GBx2) hdds
DVD writer

 

[brom42]

First thing I would do is pull the video card and try to boot without it. It sounds like your vid card went poof!

 

[abhissekk]

First thing I would do is pull the video card and try to boot without it. It sounds like your vid card went poof!

Well... I think that too. but even if i pull off my card, i cant to boot the machine. I think the onboard is disabled or something. How can i enable the onboard without accessing the BIOS screen. This is an old machine so theres no automatic switching of any sort. I even tried resetting the BIOS.

 

[brom42]

Well... I think that too. but even if i pull off my card, i cant to boot the machine. I think the onboard is disabled or something. How can i enable the onboard without accessing the BIOS screen. This is an old machine so theres no automatic switching of any sort. I even tried resetting the BIOS.

When you pull the card does it do the same beeping as before, or does it sound like it is booting?

 

[abhissekk]

Yeah, the graphics card had fried. Pulled it out and reset the CMOS. The PC was up and running on the onboard graphics card.
thanks people