This sounds most likely that your CPU is overheating with a secondary
problem with the computer case speaker. First check to make sure the fan for
the CPU comes on when you turn the computer on. Also check to make sure it
is clean of dust. If that is OK, next remove the heat sink from the CPU,
clean the contact areas, reapply thermal gel, and reinstall. Since you are
inside the case, check the fan operation on the video card and the case
fans. And check the wires to the case speaker.

You probably have a great sound system and the case speaker is not needed as
long  as the system is functioning OK.

My experience with motherboards are that they are dead on delivery, shorted
to the case when first installed, or work fine till upgraded in a few years.
Therefor, your thought of a bad motherboard, although not impossible, seems
unlikely to me.

I hope this helps get you up and running again. I know how frustrating this
can be.

As an aside, 512mb of RAM seems on the skimpy side for running high end
games.

Tom Mayer

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jose Castro" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 6:45 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Mother board blues...


I have a major problem with my pc that i had built a month ago. When i try
to turn on the system the fans lights and hd turns on but i don't hear the
POST beeps anymore and the pc stops loading after the ram count. after a
couple of restarts i got the thing working but as i was about to input my
password the thing went crazy and it shut down. After restarting agian a
couple of times i notice that the options to get to the cmos is not their
anymore and it keeps locking up after the Ram count so i thought it could be
the ram i removed it (1 512mb stick)and tried again nothing no response from
the bios it kept locking up. i then thought it could be that the cpu locked
up but it detects it fine. i tried everything from reseting the cmos to
removeing my hardware and trying them one by one i have a feeling the
motherboard went dead but it's strange that earlier my litt
le brother was playing a game on it and he said he had left it on yet i
found it off. The system was made for gameing (on low budget) and it worked
flawlessy even though games like unreal 2004 and half life 2 Etc... was
played on it.

After 1 hour of trying it seems that the problem was getting worse because
it won't show anything in the screen and i still don't hear the post. any
suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I'm sorry if i have left any info
out im really agitated at the moment.

I have the following installed:

ECS Elitegroup 915P-A 1.1 motherboard
Pentuim 4 LGA775 HT 2.8 GHz
Nvidia GeForce 6600G pci express
6 fan tower with 5 fan's installed
DVD Burner
420 watts PSU

oh yeah i also have a air conditioner running in my room all the time i'm
not sure of thats important info or not.

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