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Hi, guys! When I put on my motherboard, BIOS starts making beeps and it does not finish. I think mother died, what do you think?

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@José Matías Lemos:

If your MOBO died, it wouldn't make a beep.

The best thing you could do is remove the CMOS / BIOS battery for awhile, and remove peripheral components.

If you have onboard graphics, then you can use it in place of your graphics card.

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TheTwilightZone

Also check your Memory, a continuous beep usally means problems with the RAM.

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Count how many beeps. Or full nonstop, no break beeps? Like beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee..........?

Also don't forget to follow Biz advice. ;)

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I've cleared CMOS twice. It starts like this "beep... beep... beep..." and it does not finish doing that noise.

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Continuous long beeps: DRAM Error.

Continuous short beeps: Power Error.

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Hi, guys! When I put on my motherboard, BIOS starts making beeps and it does not finish. I think mother died, what do you think?

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If your Bios gives 3 short beeps :

= Your computer has memory problems. First check video. If video is working, you'll see an error message. If not, you have a parity error in your first 64K of memory. First check your SIMM's. Reseat them and reboot. If this doesn't do it, the memory chips may be bad. You can try switching the first and second banks memory chips. First banks are the memory banks that your CPU finds its first 64K of base memory in. You'll need to consult your manual to see which bank is first. If all your memory tests good, you probably need to buy another .

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AMI (American Megatrends') BIOS

Beep Codes

Message

one short DRAM refresh failure (Problem with memory)

two short Parity circuit failure

three short Base 64K RAM failure

four short System Timer failure

five short Processor failure

six short Keyboard Controller / Gate A20 failure

seven short Virtual Mode Exception error

eight short Display Memory Read/Write failure (fault with video card)

nine short ROM BIOS Checksum error (fault with BIOS chip)

ten short CMOS Shutdown Read/Write error

eleven short Cache memory

one long Passed (no errors)

one long, two short Video failure

one long, three short Base / Extended Memory failure

one long, eight short Display / Retrace Test failure

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AST Research BIOS

Beep Codes

Message

one short Low level processor verification test failed (POST 1)

two short Clearing keyboard controller buffers failed (POST 2)

three short Keyboard controller reset failed (POST 3)

four short Low level keyboard controller interface test (POST 4)

five short Reading data from keyboard controller failed (POST 5)

six short System board support chip initialization failed (POST 6)

seven short Processor register read/write verify test failed (POST 7)

eight short CMOS timer initialization failed (POST 8)

nine short ROM BIOS checksum test failed (POST 9)

ten short Initialize primary video (POST 10)

eleven short 8254 timer channel 0 test failed (POST 11)

twelve short 8254 timer channel 1 test failed (POST 12)

thirteen short 8254 timer channel 2 test failed (POST 13)

fourteen short CMOS power-on and time test failed (POST 14)

fifteen short CMOS shutdown byte test failed (POST 15)

one long DMA channel 0 test failed (POST 16)

one long, one short DMA channel 1 test failed (POST 17)

one long, two short DMA page register test failed (POST 18)

one long, three short Keyboard controller interface test failed (POST 19)

one long, four short Memory refresh toggle test failed (POST 20)

one long, five short First 64 KB memory test failed (POST 21)

one long, six short Setup interrupt vector table failed (POST 22)

one long, seven short Video initialization failed (POST 23)

one long, eight short Video memory test failed (POST 24)

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Award BIOS

Beep Codes

Message

one short Passed (no errors)

two short Any non-fatal error

one long, two short Video failure

one long, three short Keyboard Controller failure (applies to 286, 386 and 486)

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Compaq BIOS

Beep Codes

Message

one short Indicates that the system is booting properly

two short General BIOS error - remedy unknown

one short, two long Memory Module

one long, one short BIOS ROM checksum error

one long, two short Video error

7 Beeps: one long, one short, one long, one short, pause, one long, two short AGP Video

one long continuous tone Memory Module

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IBM BIOS

Beep Codes

Message

none Power Supply or System Board failure (possible short)

one short Passed (no errors)

one short (blank screen) Video error (check cable)

one short (no boot) Floppy Drive error

two short Configuration Error (displayed on screen)

repeating short Power Supply or System Board failure

continuous Power Supply or System Board / Keyboard stuck

one long, one short System Board failure

one long, two short Video (Mono/CGA) failure (check cable)

one long, three short Video (EGA) failure (check cable)

three long Keyboard Card error

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Mylex BIOS

Beep Codes

Message

one Normal boot

two Video adapter error

three Keyboard controller error

four Keyboard error

five PIC 0 error

six PIC 1 error

seven DMA page register error

eight RAM refresh error

nine RAM data error

ten RAM parity error

eleven DMA controller 0 error

twelve CMOS RAM error

thirteen DMA controller 1 error

fourteen CMOS RAM battery error

fifteen CMOS RAM checksum error

sixteen BIOS ROM checksum error

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Mylex 386 BIOS

Beep Codes

Message

one long Normal boot

two long Video adapter error

one long, one short, one long Keyboard controller error

one long, two short, one long Keyboard error

one long, three short, one long PIC 0 error

one long four short, one long PIC 1 error

one long, five short, one long DMA page register error

one long, six short, one long RAM refresh error

one long, seven short, one long RAM data error

one long, eight short, one long RAM parity error

one long, nine short, one long DMA controller 0 error

one long, ten short, one long CMOS RAM error

one long, eleven short, one long DMA controller 1 error

one long, twelve short, one long CMOS RAM battery error

one long, thirteen short, one long CMOS RAM checksum error

one long fourteen short, one long BIOS ROM checksum error

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Phoenix BIOS

Beep Codes

Message

one, one, three CMOS Read/Write

one, one, four ROM BIOS Checksum failure

one, two, one Programmable Interval Timer failure

one, two, two DMA Initialisation failure

one, two, three DMA Page Register Read/Write failure

one, three, one RAM Refresh Verification error

one, three, three First 64K RAM Chip/Data Line failure

one, three, four First 64K RAM Odd/Even Logic

one, four, one First 64K RAM: Address Line

one, four, two First 64K RAM: Parity failure

one, four, three Fail-Safe Timer Feature (EISA only)

one, four, four Software NMI Port failure (EISA only)

two (followed by various combinations) First 64K RAM Chip/Data Line failure (combinations indicate which bit)

three, one, one Slave DMA Register failure

three, one, two Master DMA Register failure

three, one, three Master Interrupt Mask Register failure

three, one, four Slave Interrupt Mask Register failure

three, two, four Keyboard Controller failure

three, three, four Display Memory failure

three, four, one Display Retrace failure

three, four, two Video ROM search proceeding

four, two, one Timer Tick failure

four, two, two Shutdown failure

four, two, three Gate A20 failure

four, two, four Unexpected Interrupt in Protected Mode

four, three, one RAM test above 64K failure

four, three, two/three Programmable Interval Timer, Channel 2 failure

four, three, four Realtime Clock failure

four, four, one Serial Port error

four, four, two Parallel Port error

four, four, three Math Co-processor failure

(tone) one, one, two System Board Select

(tone) one, one, three Extender CMOS RAM

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Quadtel BIOS

Beep Codes

Message

one short Indicates that the system is booting properly

two short CMOS IC error

one long, two short Video error

one long, three short Peripheral controller error

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Cheers

Jofre

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