Gigabyte 8IEXP Won't Boot

[barmstrong]

When I try to boot my computer, my board is giving short quick high pitched beeps one after the other and it doesnt stop. The hard drive LED is constantly lit up. I looked on the Gigabyte site and didn't see any mention of this code. Any ideas?

Tried resetting the bios, tried the backup bios, tried taking out the battery. Took out everything (pci cards, hard drive, cdrom, floppy drive) cept the proc, video card and one stick of ram. Tried a different power supply. Tried putting the RAM in different slots. Tested all the ram and video card in another machine and they worked fine.

I had my 100FSB/1.6 oc'd to 133FSB/2.13 but when it became hot outside i backed it off to 100FSB/1.6 so it wasn't overclocked. I bought new PC3200 RAM, installed it and it worked fine for a few days so I tried running it at 133FSB/2.13 again and it wouldn't post. So I put it back to 1.6, and put in my old RAM just to see if it would do 2.13 again then it never booted again. The 1.6 used to run at 2.4 on my asus board and did it fine for a long time so putting it at 2.13 wouldn't kill it afaik, it never could go above 2.13 on the silly gigabyte board.

So im guessing either the processor or board are dead. Hoping board cuz im looking for an excuse to get an IS7E

Thanks.

 

[barmstrong]

tested the processor in another machine and it worked fine so it looks like the motherboard. any ideas what is wrong with it? corrupt bios?

 

[don49]

 

[don49]

Similar prob wth my 8KNXP the other day. Thought it was the vid card. Had a TNT laying around so I put in and got the comp to post. Put card back in and been working since.

 

[KF]

Originally posted by: barmstrong
tested the processor in another machine and it worked fine so it looks like the motherboard. any ideas what is wrong with it? corrupt bios?

Is it an nForce2? SNDS. Sudden Nforce Death Syndrom. It has no cause and no cure. All it takes is one failure to boot. OTOH, sometimes it magically springs to life if you leave it sit to the next day and try again.

 

[barmstrong]

It is actually an i845e. I will try swapping the vid cards tonight. Thanks.

 

[barmstrong]

swapping vid cards didnt help. i decided to try a different board and now having same problems but that post is now in the Abit IS7 thread. thanks.