System will not pass POST

DexterDexter Vancouver, BC Canada
edited February 2005 in Hardware
I was doing some work to our office's FTP & Admin server, adding a couple of extra hard drives for backup storage. Next thing I know, the video card died. I put in a temp video card, and then got a new one today, installed it, and it worked fine.

When I rebooted the system, it would not POST. No beep, no OS boot. I tried turning it on and off a few times. Sometimes I would get the same problem, other times I would get continuos fast beeps, almost like a ringing telephone. I googled that but could not find anything.

I get no POST, no video output, no error message,, or sometimes I get the super fast beeping error.

I have:

-disconnected the new drives
- swapped back to the temp video card
- reseated RAM and CPU, heatsink, etc
- moved RAM to different slots
- checked all connections
I even tried removing the RAM and the video card, just to see if I get a different post error beep code, but nothing happens.


Motherboard is a Gigabyte 8IK1100.

Any ideas? Am I looking at a bad BIOS chip?

Thanks in advance.

Dexter...

Comments

  • GrayFoxGrayFox /dev/urandom Member
    edited February 2005
    Dexter wrote:
    I was doing some work to our office's FTP & Admin server, adding a couple of extra hard drives for backup storage. Next thing I know, the video card died. I put in a temp video card, and then got a new one today, installed it, and it worked fine.

    When I rebooted the system, it would not POST. No beep, no OS boot. I tried turning it on and off a few times. Sometimes I would get the same problem, other times I would get continuos fast beeps, almost like a ringing telephone. I googled that but could not find anything.

    I get no POST, no video output, no error message,, or sometimes I get the super fast beeping error.

    I have:

    -disconnected the new drives
    - swapped back to the temp video card
    - reseated RAM and CPU, heatsink, etc
    - moved RAM to different slots
    - checked all connections
    I even tried removing the RAM and the video card, just to see if I get a different post error beep code, but nothing happens.


    Motherboard is a Gigabyte 8IK1100.

    Any ideas? Am I looking at a bad BIOS chip?

    Thanks in advance.

    Dexter...

    Try another stick of ram.
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited February 2005
    And if that fails, reset CMOS.
  • DexterDexter Vancouver, BC Canada
    edited February 2005
    I did try clearing the CMOS, no luck there. I will grab another stick of RAM from another box and see if that changes anything, but I don't think another stick of RAM will matter - I get the same situation even if I reemove the RAM stick, it's almost like it's not getting to the point of even checking the RAM. Maybe it will, we'll see....

    Dexter...
  • DexterDexter Vancouver, BC Canada
    edited February 2005
    A new stick of RAM did not make any difference. I think the motherboard is fried. Going to rebuild the new system with a different motherboard.

    Dexter...
  • MediaManMediaMan Powered by loose parts.
    edited February 2005
    Continuous beeping with no pattern is first attributed to a video or memory problem. If you get continuous beeps...with a pause...then continuous beeps then I'd look to memory first.

    Third to that then the only culprit will be the motherboard.

    The fact that you had the system up and running...and just added more drives then it wouldn't run anymore makes me think that the problem is motherboard related.

    Because...going back to the working parts and after clearing BIOS and no post...leaves the likely culprit that the motherboard packed it in....the one way to confirm this is to double check the ram and video card in another system to make sure they are working...and then try the alleged faulty motherboard with another PSU....just to make sure the PSU didn't pack it in.
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