beeeep, beep beep.

[mechanymagazine]

Hey dudes, havin a bit of trouble with a board.
wont boot, gives me the beeps.
One longish beep followed by two shorter beeps. Sis chipset board with onboard video. Was gonna use it for a linux server, but dunno whats goin on with it at the moment. While i was out this afternoon dad decided to have a go at gettin it up and going. He decided to reseat the ram, put it in backwards and smoked the stick lol.
P5S - VM the board is.
Any ideas where i can find the fault codes?

[muno]

You need to know the bios manuf., then you can find what the beeb codes mean.
´M

[mechanymagazine]

Yeah this was a bargain bin mobo, no manual.

[mechanymagazine]

Beep codes are pretty standard but arent they, like theyre the same for ami bios, and all award are the same?

[muno]

If you say so.

It's video card error then.
-M

[mechanymagazine]

I was sure video card errors were 8 beeps.

[OuTpaTienT]

AFAIK, no they are not standard. You need to know your beep codes. If you don't have a manual handy, then just start looking around. I would suggest you giive this new fangled Interweb-thingy a try. Take whatever info you can find on your motherboard (manufacturer name, board name, model number, revision number, serial number, anything you can find) and one by one, plug the info into that Interweb search motor and see what comes up.

[mechanymagazine]

lol yeah orrite, if i have to

[mechanymagazine]

its an oem board by the looks of it, out of a hp or something. Not much info about the board on it.

[Mike]

A bargain bin mobo? That just has disaster written all over it doesn't it?
OuT has the right idea. You have to find whatever information you can find and go and give google a try. Eventually you will start getting hits for it.

I don't believe that beep codes are standard, but I do run across a lot of similar ones.