The Famous Beeping BH6 with no post! HELP!

[silverback]

System: Abit BH6 (flashed to NV) - Celeron 300a - Sis APG Vid - 64 meg pc100

SO after a year and a half running at 374MHZ, I had an Explorer crash and when I rebooted, the system would not post..Only beep repeatedly until I turned off the power. If I try within a couple minutes, same thing beep beep beep .... SOOO here's the mystery....If I wait a good hour or two and then boot, 9 times out of 10, I have boot success. But if I power down the system and try to reboot..beep beep beep. I sick of waiting hours upon hours to get my system up. Yes I have reseated everything on the motherboard. The only time it won't beep is if I take out the CPU (but won't post without CPU. I been all over the newsgroups reading about this problem but have found nothing to explain this sudden problem. Any suggestions? New CPU, Motherboard, and/or memory?

[Target]

I'm leaning toward a conclusion that the memory is bad, and likely over-heating.

Bad memory would explain the beeps and no post, and having to wait for a long time before it can be powered up sounds to me like a cooling problem.

If you have another stick of RAM to try, I'd give that a whirl and see if your issue goes away.

If not, then we can begin to look at the CPU and Motherboard Chipset as possible over-heating candidates as well.

BTW, that celeron 300a should be able to do 450Mhz with the proper cooling http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[This message has been edited by Target (edited 02-02-2000).]

[silverback]

If it was bad memory, wouldn't it post if I took it out? In this case it doesn't.

[Target]

Nope..... if you remove the memory, it will not post.

[This message has been edited by Target (edited 02-02-2000).]

[Dave_H]

On the boards i've worked on, if the RAM is not installed or seated properly, it seems like a bad vid card. You hear your drive(s)
spinning and lights blinking but no display.
So i'm not sure if it posts, I can't see nothing.
Dave

[silverback]

Yes...but when it doesn't post and there's nothing on the video, I still get the repeated beep, beep, beep. If it was posting without the vid, it wouldn't be beeping. Why does it need to sit for hours before powering on?

[Dave_H]

Looked over ther site, but couldn't find the "beep codes" You may have a better look, heres where you can d-load a manual, might be in there. http://www.abit.com.tw/english/product/index.htm
Dave

[silverback]

I have the beep codes but there is nothing for infinite long beeps.

[ram]

Just a thought,have you got a different power supply you could try? It could be getting to hot in one or more of the components and not giving you the correct voltage??

[silverback]

The power supply dosen't feel hot but that's a very good thought. I will give it a try!

[Susan]

An Abit BX6 that I worked on made continuous piercing beeps when I booted up without memory.