Help! with Boot-up - Hardware

Remove all RAM and try it; you should get a beep code for no RAM. If it is the same beep code as you got before try changing the BIOS settings to more conservative values; higher CAS latency, slower bus speed etc.

Martin wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> I have just built myself a new system using an ASUS P4S8X (533FSB) M/B
> but when I try to power up the M/B starts beeping at me. It's a high
> pitched beep followed by a lower pitched beep in an endless loop. What
> does this mean? In the M/B manual it says such a beep may mean that no
> DRAM is installed or detected. But I have replaced the RAM with
> another one to see if that was the problem but the beeping continues.
> When I turn on the computer the PSU and fan work, so does the
> heat-sink fan and the green 'Power' light on the motherboard is
> illuminated. But I can't boot-up at all, nothing is shown on the
> screen, it just continues to beep.
>
> Please help me!

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Mike Walsh
West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A.

It sounds like you may be using RAM sticks whose brand or model number are
incompatible with that motherboard.

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DaveW



"Martin" <saveferris75@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello
>
> I have just built myself a new system using an ASUS P4S8X (533FSB) M/B
> but when I try to power up the M/B starts beeping at me. It's a high
> pitched beep followed by a lower pitched beep in an endless loop. What
> does this mean? In the M/B manual it says such a beep may mean that no
> DRAM is installed or detected. But I have replaced the RAM with
> another one to see if that was the problem but the beeping continues.
> When I turn on the computer the PSU and fan work, so does the
> heat-sink fan and the green 'Power' light on the motherboard is
> illuminated. But I can't boot-up at all, nothing is shown on the
> screen, it just continues to beep.
>
> Please help me!