hi m8 . have u tried booting the system with the bare essentials needed ? does sound like memory failure. take a look here to..might help. http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm#7 >From: GeorgeMary <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: [PCBUILD] New Build will not start >Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 18:19:58 -0700 > >Original message************* >I am putting together a 1.8 MHz celeron, ECS P4VXASD2+ motherboard, DDR >256Meg PC2100, GigaByte AG32S AGP video card. So far all I have installed >are these parts. The fans spin and the power light comes on, but no >display. All I get are beeps. First one, then 8, then 2, then 1. The >board has AMIbios. I did a search on the codes and thought that they were >saying something about memory or video card. I changed the position of the >memory, and reseated the video card. I also rechecked jumpers and looked >for >possible shorts mounting the MB. All parts are new, but looks like one at >least is bad. Does anyone have any ideas on how to narrow it down(I might >be able to find a machine to check memory, but don't know about the video >card, since it is AGP), or does anyone know what the beeps are telling me? >************************************ >I took all the parts to Frys electronics in PHX and much to my amazement, >they all checked out individually. They only thing that I didn't take in >and check out was the new case. I'll check the voltages on the power >supply >connection tomorrow and if they check OK, I'll hook up the MB on a piece of >foam to make sure I don't have any shorts to the case that I couldn't see >before. Any other suggestions will be entertained. THX >George&Mary Skokan ([log in to unmask]) > > Visit our website regularly for FAQs, > articles, how-to's, tech tips and much more > http://freepctech.com _________________________________________________________________ Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://freepctech.com/pcbuild.shtml