One long beep, three very quick ones...whats it mean?

[newbie~wan]

I tried to turn my old system on today to try to get floppy working (still not........)
but I dont even get a visual now!!!!!

My only clue is that the system speaker makes one long blast, then three quick ones in succession. What does this mean?
Is there someplace where I can look up what all the different beeps mean or is it unique to every system. Please help.

[Bovon]

Well, it might help if you could list your system, especially what bios you have...Award or AMI..

Most post beep codes don't change much, but could change if the mobo mfr. saw fit to do so..Anyway, here is what I have copied, but I have no idea if it even comes close to your system.


BIOS Beep Sound core list

AWARD BIOS
Beep Sound Massage
1 short(Beep) System booting is normally.
2 short(Beep) CMOS setting error
1 long - 1 short(Beep) DRAM ERROR
1 long - 2 short(Beep) Display card or monitor connected error
1 long - 3 short(Beep) Keyboard Error
1 long - 9 short(Beep) ROM Error
Long(Beep) continuous DRAM hasn't inset correctly.
Short(Beep) continuous POWER supply has problem.


AMI BIOS
1 short(Beep) DRAM Flash Error
2 short(Beep) DRAM ECC Check Error
3 short(Beep) DRAM Detect Fail
5 short(Beep) CPU Error
6 short(Beep) Keyboard Error
8 short(Beep) Display card memory Error
9 short(Beep) ROM Error
1 long - 3 short(Beep) DRAM Damage
1 long - 8 short(Beep) Display card or monitor connected error

[Tekk]

Its your vid card...same thing happened to me with my Abit board. I bought a MSI GF2 and it booted once then after that it just died. Took it back and got a new one worked fine