I built a new ATHLON 600 system, and it beeps at first, then stops.

[Strat 1]

I just put together a new system, an ATHLON K7 600 on an Asus K7M with 13.7 Gig Maxtor (7200-rpm) 128 ram and a Guillemot Xentor 32mb video card. The system rocks! I have not built a system in 4 +years, and I only did that once too. However, it was very strait forward and I had some help for this board last week.
My issue is, when I boot up the computer, both my system speaker and my stereo speakers are beeping and beeping. The beeping continues even while I am running windows, but slowly stops after 5 minutes or so. Then after it stops it will not start up again until I turn the computer off and let it sit for the day or night. If I shut down the computer for 30 minutes and reboot it-, there is no beeping. I have checked all the settings on the BIOS and in windows- nothing seems out of place. The only little thing I see is an error in the hardware properties for “PCI Management Bus” it cannot find the Drivers for that. The sound card is onboard and most of the Bios settings I did not change. I tried setting all the BIOS to default, but that did nothing.
I can understand if I did something wrong and there is an error, but why does it stop and not start up again until it sits for a while. The beeping starts immediately after turning the power up, so it has to be something in the Bios or on the Board!

ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED

Thanks
Strat 1

[This message has been edited by Strat 1 (edited 02-08-2000).]

[jbob]

Make sure your processor fan is plugged into the correct plug. There are two together, one says CPU, the other says case. I had the same trouble the first time I ran the K-7. The fan monitors are alerting you that the processor fan is not working.

[Strat 1]

That did the trick, Thanks!

[jbob]

Welcome

[Spartan]

Strat 1:
I am also beginning to build a 600 MHz system based on the K7M mobo. Were there any gotchas you might like to pass along to someone who will be soon building a very similar system?

Thanks.

[Spartan]

I'm going witha similar system -- maybe you've seen my post on the General Information board.

AMD 600,
ASUS K7M w/a
Maxtor 27GB drive
...etc...

One question though -- I've ordered all of components already except for memory and Win98. Where did you buy your memory? I'm thinking 128MB of Crucial PC133 but would like to find something a little cheaper.

Funny, I'm upgrading from a P100 laptop that I spent over $3300 on. Ouch! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/icons/icon9.gif

Spartan

[This message has been edited by Spartan (edited 02-09-2000).]

[Strat 1]

Spartan,

I am just your average Joe who built a Pentium 120 about 4 years when they were hot. I figured it could not be too hard to do it again. I did a bunch of research online and decided to go with the following system

ATHLON K7 600
Asus K7M
13.7 Gig Maxtor (7200-rpm)
128 ram
Guillemot Xentor 32mb
The sound card is onboard and it works well.
The whole system was a snap; I had to download a PCI management BUS driver from the Asus web site because of a hardware error in windows.
I have been playing quake III and other big games it the system has preformed perfectly. The Guillemot card is great too, I am very glad I got that one!

It was a breeze from start to finish. Give me an email anytime if you need help.
Strat_one@hotmail.com

Good luck!