The beep codes can only be deciphered when you know what brand bios you
have. Most boards these days come with the Award bios. Award only
officially lists one beep code and that's one long beep and two short which
means bad video card. My board also had the award bios and when the caps
went bad on it I had a hard time booting it. The beep code was an
alternating hi/low tone like a siren.
I'd say try reseating the video card, then reseat everything else like the
ram. If the cpu goes you normally don't get any beeps at all. You could
also try another power supply.
DaveL
"torrey" <trhanson RemoveThis @att.net> wrote in message
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> My self-built K8T Neo FSR ran fine for 18 nonths then started working
> intermittently. One day no problem, next day can't power on, next day
> fine again, next day won't power on for several days, then works for
> days/weeks at a time. Currently not powering on.
>
> When power fails on I get the following:
>
> 1 beep (pause) 8 beeps / 30 second pause 2 beeps (pause) 1 beep
>
> Any ideas/translations/suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Torrey
>
>
> MSI K8T Neo-FSR
> Enhance 400 W Power Supply
> AMD Athalon 64 3000
> MSI 5600 xt Video Card
> 2 Samsung 512 MB PC 3200 400 RAM
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> West Digital 36 GB SATA 10000RPM
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