POST error, no video (GA-5AX)

Greetings,

I've inherited a GA-5AX Rev 5.x based computer that was working
relatively well until one day it started blue screenining a few times,
and upon the next reboot...suddenly there's no video at all, and I get
some weird POST beeps I've never encountered before:

1 long beep
a pause.
What sounds like 2 really short beeps
a pause
A high tone (lower in frequency than the beep though)
A low tone

The mobo manual doesn't describe POST codes, and I haven't found any
joy on the Gigabyte web site either, or in my searches of this
newsgroup.

Can anyone tell me what this code might mean?

TIA for any help! I can start stripping components but there really
isn't much in here, and it'd help to know what hte computer is trying
to tell me!

Best Regards,
--
Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/

Update for posterity: By process of elimination, I determined that
this error was caused by a BAD strip of RAM. Once I removed the
offending SIMM, the machine powered on with the happy single beep of
POST success.


 > Greetings,
 >
 > I've inherited a GA-5AX Rev 5.x based computer that was working
 > relatively well until one day it started blue screenining a few times,
 > and upon the next reboot...suddenly there's no video at all, and I get
 > some weird POST beeps I've never encountered before:
 >
 > 1 long beep
 > a pause.
 > What sounds like 2 really short beeps
 > a pause
 > A high tone (lower in frequency than the beep though)
 > A low tone
 >
 > The mobo manual doesn't describe POST codes, and I haven't found any
 > joy on the Gigabyte web site either, or in my searches of this
 > newsgroup.
 >
 > Can anyone tell me what this code might mean?
 >
 > TIA for any help! I can start stripping components but there really
 > isn't much in here, and it'd help to know what hte computer is trying
 > to tell me!




--
Todd H.
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