I have a IBM pentium 4 desktop with XP and on start up I get a long beep, then two short beeps on start up. I think that it might be one of my Nvidvia Vanta Lt monitor cards. I removed the 3 cards to vacuum dust off of them. I reinstalled them and updated the drivers and they seem to work fine, but I occassionally get a message saying that Microsoft wants to download a fatal error report concerning the monitor card. I have scanned for viruses, trogens and such and have a firewall and spybuster.
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long beep, then two short beeps on start up
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franklin97355
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Do a google for 'beep codes' you'll find your answer.
1 long 2 short is video.
Take the cards out again, clean off the gold part with pencil eraser, lightly, and blow dust out of pci or agp slots as needed.
Probably have to install drivers again as well.
But that is definitely what the prob is, video.
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Take the cards out again, clean off the gold part with pencil eraser, lightly, and blow dust out of pci or agp slots as needed.
Probably have to install drivers again as well.
But that is definitely what the prob is, video.
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hmmmm..... I wonder why it thinks there is a problem when the 3 cards work fine? I'm thinking maybe the drivers aren't staying loaded as some times it doesn't beep at all. I have another display card, maybe I will do the cleaning and stuff and replace the one card too.
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With computers, the word(s) are" You just never know".
Sure, sometimes you do know, but most time you just never know. That is, until you use the process of elimination method along with testing and such.
So it pays to do the easy parts first, thats why i mentioned cleaning the gold contacts with pencil eraser, pink rubber ones are the best, anyway gently clean the contacts and blow out dust from the slot where the card goes.
Also, you might, if you have the mobo out of the box, turn it over and check for bad soldering, but thats only if you have it out of the box. You should use a magnifying glass to do that job as its usually hard to spot. Not all that common either, but you never know. Theres those words again.
There was a guy a few weeks ago here found a bad solder connection on an ide connector, which is no different than finding a bad solder connection on a vid card connector.
This would be the very last place to look for a problem, unless the computer has been taken in and out of the home\office, been to lan parties or things like that, moved around a lot.
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Sure, sometimes you do know, but most time you just never know. That is, until you use the process of elimination method along with testing and such.
So it pays to do the easy parts first, thats why i mentioned cleaning the gold contacts with pencil eraser, pink rubber ones are the best, anyway gently clean the contacts and blow out dust from the slot where the card goes.
Also, you might, if you have the mobo out of the box, turn it over and check for bad soldering, but thats only if you have it out of the box. You should use a magnifying glass to do that job as its usually hard to spot. Not all that common either, but you never know. Theres those words again.
There was a guy a few weeks ago here found a bad solder connection on an ide connector, which is no different than finding a bad solder connection on a vid card connector.
This would be the very last place to look for a problem, unless the computer has been taken in and out of the home\office, been to lan parties or things like that, moved around a lot.
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I haven't got around to reseating the boards, but found this under 'Conflicts' under system when I was working on something else.
It looks like the modem and one of the video cards are on the same interupt. I tried to go in and change the video to a different interrupt, but it is 'grayed out'.
(I also downloaded another driver for the video card and when it rebooted it didn't beep like usual until I brought it up the next day. It is like the computer isn't saving the info if power is off too long.)
Memory Address 0xF0000000-0xF2FFFFFF Intel(R) 82845 Processor to AGP Controller - 1A31
Memory Address 0xF0000000-0xF2FFFFFF NVIDIA Vanta/Vanta LT
I/O Port 0x00000000-0x00000CF7 PCI bus
I/O Port 0x00000000-0x00000CF7 Direct memory access controller
IRQ 16 NVIDIA Vanta/Vanta LT
IRQ 16 Lucent Win Modem
Conflicts
It looks like the modem and one of the video cards are on the same interupt. I tried to go in and change the video to a different interrupt, but it is 'grayed out'.
(I also downloaded another driver for the video card and when it rebooted it didn't beep like usual until I brought it up the next day. It is like the computer isn't saving the info if power is off too long.)
Memory Address 0xF0000000-0xF2FFFFFF Intel(R) 82845 Processor to AGP Controller - 1A31
Memory Address 0xF0000000-0xF2FFFFFF NVIDIA Vanta/Vanta LT
I/O Port 0x00000000-0x00000CF7 PCI bus
I/O Port 0x00000000-0x00000CF7 Direct memory access controller
IRQ 16 NVIDIA Vanta/Vanta LT
IRQ 16 Lucent Win Modem
Conflicts
YOu could try and change the pci slot for the modem, see if that helps any as sometimes they will go for a different irq when in a different pci slot.
I take it you have all 3 video cards in one machine, right, thats why you are having irq problems?
How about trying to have the video cards sharing the same irq(s)? You can attempt to change them manually.
Upon reading again i see the irq is greyed out for the video cards. But,maybe if you took the vid cards out and installed one at a time you might be able to gain access to the irq line?
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I take it you have all 3 video cards in one machine, right, thats why you are having irq problems?
How about trying to have the video cards sharing the same irq(s)? You can attempt to change them manually.
Upon reading again i see the irq is greyed out for the video cards. But,maybe if you took the vid cards out and installed one at a time you might be able to gain access to the irq line?
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Opening the box right now is very inconvenient, so beings how it only beeps and doesn't effect anything else I am delaying opening till I need to for other reasons. I thought that I could change the IRQ at start up, but never get a 'press F2 to into setup' when I start the machine up. I have tried pressing F2 and other Fs but to no avail. I am thinking I need to fix the IRQ problem anyway before opening the box up. Do modem cards and video cards have hard switches on them to indicate the IRQ that they are using?
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