Internal speaker beeps (forever) and no video signal!

[maxx09]

Someone please help! My computer is screwed!. All it does is a hear the computer booting up as normal, but i get no signal from the videocard and a long beep from the internal speaker, then a pause then another (it does this forever until you turn it off.. it is NOT a beep code) I've eliminated the video card because I have replaced it only to find the same thing happens! I've also tried unplugging all my drives and that does nothing. What is wrong?

[skywalker[TSG]]

sounds like the CPU or memory could be bad or not seated

check everything again

[psyklone]

did you try the other video card in the same slot? there's a good possibility that you may have a toasted slot. check that out.

[maxx09]

Thanks! It was the memory slightly fallen out! Now it turns on but both my harddrives fail.. they autodetect, but fail afterwords.. they are FIRMLY plugged in. (before i had this beeping problem i unplugged them both to swap them over (changing one from the master to the slave and vice versa) not realising the drive letter assignment would not reassaign itself. So i swapped them back, booted my computer, irt all worked fine. Reset it, then the harddrives both failed. Then reset it again, then i got the beep. I suspect it could be my cables in the CPU on the blink.. anyone have any ideas?

[maxx09]

It wasn't the cable. Turns out the IDE 1 port on my MB was faulty. All back and working now! (Phew!) Thanks for all your help! Now i'm off to install win98 (fingers crossed it works!)