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Yes, thats how it sounds when I try to start my computer. And I have to redo the thing several times, with the "insert"-button depressed. According to my moboīs manual, when running into trouble. Bootīs up after 3 or 4 attempts, everything rock steady afterwards. Temps ok, 28@idle, 43@full load. But why the booting trouble?? It seemes to me that the AGP-slot canīt be initiated for some reason, my screen says "no signal"?
Got an AVIA1133 / 266 / Abit Kt/a raid, Asus V7700 graph.card, 256mbPC133, 30Gb IBM hd.
After redoing the pencil trick, things seems to be a bit more stable, but not for long :(
Do I use the "wrong" kind of pencil? I use a normal office click-pencil to unlock the bridges. Do you clever guys have any suggestion what to do?
For the moment running 1133@1330 (140x9,5). Briefly touched 1400, but ran into temp problems (53C@full load, vcore 1,8v) I didīnt like that, went back to 1330.
So please let me know, if anybody have any solutions!
Regards
Jan
Megahurtz
05-02-01, 04:18 PM
The one long beep, two short beeps is typically indicative of a video card problem. Make certain it is firmly seated, and swap it out with a known good card if system persists.
That is my best answer, hopefully someone will confirm this..or shoot me down in flames.
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UnseenMenace
05-02-01, 04:20 PM
On Abits FAQ on the website ( http://www.abit.nl ) it has this which might help you
Q: Over half the time when I boot up, my computer can't find the VGA card and emits three beeps (one long, two short).
A: Some users have reported that their KT7 system fail to boot up with an Asus V7700 AGP card or that there is no video signal. If you experience this issue, raise the I/O voltage slightly to 3.4v. On the other hand, ATI Xpert 98 AGP cards may dispaly a corrupt screen with an I/O voltage higher than 3.4V. Xpert 98 users should make sure your I/O voltage remains at the default.
On the pencil side.. I understand that you have to use a Graphite pencil as some new pencils are made of somthing else that is not conductive.. And you have to use a 'FIRM' amount of pressure. Although conductive ink is generally the better bet. But check out this URL for the how to do it
http://www.tweakhardware.com/guide/duron-voltage/
As for being a clever guy that counts me out, im new to all this.. so dont take my advice as being correct read those sites and hope that some 'real' clever guy answers this.. hope i helped anyway.. hehe
Duron 800 @ 1027 with Global Win FOP-32
Abit KT7A-Raid Mobo
512 mb (133 mhz Crucial Stuff)
Elsa Gforce with Blue Orb (modified to display as a Quadro and overclocked http://www.tweakhardware.com/guide/quadro/ )
Sound Blaster Live
Full Tower With 5 Fans (120 mm) with seperate PSU
Go here http://www.viahardware.com/faq/kt7/kt7faq.htm I think the boot up section is first on the list,this should help you.Go to the trouble shooting section.Good luck
This is taken from Paul's unofficial Abit KT7 FAQ http://www.viahardware.com/faq/kt7/kt7faq.htm
"Why does my system not boot with the Asus V7700 AGP Card?
In an email to me from the support desk at Monarch Computer Systems, they said that problems occur 80% of the time with the V7700
Pure 32MB and V7700 Deluxe 64 MB, but that they have not seen this problem occur with the V7700 Deluxe 32MB or the V7700 Pure
64 MB. The problems do not occur with other motherboards. [Update: one user emailed me to say he cannot get his V7700 Deluxe
32MB to boot and ended up buying a GeForce2Mx.]
This problem can sometimes be resolved by raising the I/O voltage in the BIOS to 3.4v and/or raising the AGP Driving Strength to EA or
FF in the Advanced Chipset Features of the BIOS. It has also been reported that flashing to the 2.14 bios
available on the Asus web site (ftp page) solves the problem. Also see the ABIT FAE advice. If these solutions do not work for you, you
may wish to return you card to Asus for a newer replacement - the fault appears to be theirs.
One user warned me that despite the above advice, with his KT7 and Asus 7700 deluxe graphics card (BIOS revision 2.15.01.14), he still
could not achieve stability. He claimed that neither ASUS nor ABIT would accept responsibility and advised users to stay clear of this
graphics card until the problem is resolved. My best guess is that the Asus 7700 must be marginally compatible with the KT7,
depending on the tolerances of the particular components on each board. Hence the mixed reports of success. Your choice.
Other solutions
Another user found that by setting the Delay for HDD to 2 seconds in Advanced BIOS Features page of the BIOS allowed the machine to
boot correctly - as it prevents both the disks and graphics card from drawing too much current at the same time.
One user found that if he hit the reset button at the moment the motherboard beeped at him (when it failed to find the graphics card), then
the machine would then go on to boot fine. This fix was 100% sucessful."
UnseenMenace
05-02-01, 04:33 PM
Opps i also forgot
The AGP slot and PCI-1 share an IRQ so it might also be worth checking that for conflicts
try all the pci cards and vcard without being screwed in.
sometimes if u have a badly made case it offsets the contacts in the slots .
had the problem last night when doing some work to my sys and had thet smae bips.
but after resitting the cards in ,the problems were gone.
i don`t think it has anything to do with you V7700.
as i`m using one too,and didn`t get a single problem.
GOD...
I have a 800 Duron oced and now worked fine at 140x7.5= 1050mhz and I had exactly the same problem before when booting; 1 long beep followed by 2 short ones; and after a few booting trials, the system worked fine and stable; restarted from windows... 1 long beep and 2 short one again. Very frustrated. I found out that it is the Video card that could not stand the HIGH FSB. Whenever I pushed the FSB higher like 145mgz then the 1 long, 2 short beeps syndrom come back again. My Matrox 450 video card is happy with FSB up to 140mhz only. That make a nice Oced 7.5x140=1050mhz. Now, I am sure that any moment I change back to 6.5x145= 942mhz I will have that 1 long 2 short again. Try to bring the FSB lower than the current 140mhz FSB you have now... like 133 or 136mhz... I think it will be OK. I believe that the VIA chip set on my Abit KT7A does support the AGP= FSB/2 but don't know how to set it in the BIOS. Because if I can set AGP=FSB/2 then I could have no problem at 145FSB+ at all... since145/2= 73mhz AGP bus should be OK with most good AGP video cards.. while 145*(2/3)=97mhz may not!
never mind; i just looked at the sisoft sandra and via chip set showed 140fsb/2=70mhz agp and tried again at 145 fsb and here... it comes, 1 long and two short beeps... the matrox 450 just can't stand fsb higher than 140mhz. period.
tim (May 03, 2001 07:25 a.m.):
never mind; i just looked at the sisoft sandra and via chip set showed 140fsb/2=70mhz agp and tried again at 145 fsb and here... it comes, 1 long and two short beeps... the matrox 450 just can't stand fsb higher than 140mhz. period.My Matrox 450 goes to 148 FSB but thats about it.
Does your problem occur on a cold boot or when the system is hot?
I have a similar problem but different mobo and vid card. My system cold boots with no problem, but if I shut it down and wait more than about 5 minutes, it won't restart - one long, two short beeps.
Fsb and amount of o/c seem to have no effect.
If I wait 20 minutes or so it will start again with no problem. I have not found a workaround for the problem yet.
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