One long, then 3 short beeps... HELP!

[Brangwen]

Colleagues:

This involves my wife's computer so I need your expert guidance quick.

PIII 600E on Abit VA6. Was working great for months. I upgraded to Athlon system and handed PIII to my wife. Installed internal Zip in PIII (slaved off HD -- Maxtor 20 GB 7200rpm 66ATA), CDROM and CDRW in place as well. 256 MB Crucial P133 SDRAM, Voodoo3 3000 AGP, SB card, one ISA modem. Tested on diningroom table, posted, entered CMOS, set up Zip, saved, quit, rebooted, worked. Turned off. My wife sprayed dust off few areas with can of compressed air. Carried across room to her desk, set down, hooked up wires to monitor, etc., No post. Carried back to diningroom table, disconnected everything from mobo, tried booting, got one long beep and 3 short ones. No post. Everything is firmly seated. Lost in state of confusion. Any ideas?

Thx. This is my wife's machine. Help -- quick!

Thx.

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[This message has been edited by Brangwen (edited 04-05-2001).]

[randy48]

What BIOS do you have? Beeps mean different things for the different type BIOS

I forgot I had this link:
http://www.ping.be/bios/

[This message has been edited by randy48 (edited 04-05-2001).]

[Brangwen]

Award Bios, SoftMenu

Thx!

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[randy48]

Here is your problem:

Beep Codes
The only AwardBIOS beep code indicates that a video error has occurred and the BIOS cannot initialize the video screen to display any additional information. This beep code consists of a single long beep followed by two short beeps. Any other beeps are probably a RAM (Random Access Memory) problems.

http://www.phoenix.com/pcuser/awardbios/award_error_codes.html

[Brangwen]

Thx, Randy. Should I try changing vidcards?

Thx.

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[randy48]

Try reseating the Video card, pull it and put back in, check the other cards, cables, RAM, etc. You probably just knocked something loose adding the drive. If it still doesn't work, try disconnecting the drive you added, maybe a conflict there!

[Brangwen]

Randy, thx for your assistance. I'll try reseating EVERYTHING first thing in morning. Hope I didn't corrupt BIOS.

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