Gigabyte GA-8PE667 Ultra woes...

[ishmael2k]

Ok I am trying to set up the following system:

GA-8PE667 Ultra
Intel P4 2.26 Ghz 533FSB w/ retail HSF
1g Hynix PC2100
Matrox G550 AGP

When I hit the power button all I get is a short series of beeps gollowed by a continuous series of rapid beeps that coincide with the power led blinking. Absolutely nothing on screen at all. I have never run into this particular problem before and it has me stumped. I thought that it might have been the vid card (Maybe it was a 3.3v only.) but this is not the case.

I have checked all the connections, re-seated the memory, video and cpu, the ps was in use with another board the same day. I also removed the bios battery to reset the bios and this made no difference either. (On a side note, anyone know where the bios jumper is on this board?)

Gigabytes manual is no help, nor is their website (So far)

Any clues at all where I should be looking?

Thanks!

Rob

Edit Ok I did some more testing, came up with the following:

Bare m/b, no beeps at all. Fans alll spin up etc but nary a peep from the board.

M/B with cpu only, same beeps as noted before, makes no difference from this point on what I add or remove. I have pulled and reseated the cpu several times with no affect.

Soooo is this pointing at the cpu? or possibly the m/b? This the only p4 setup I have so I can't swap things around...

I am about to throw my trusty P3 setup back in and call it quits on the P4 scene...

Edit 2 Ok another update, I pulled the 12v to the cpu and there was no beep code..
Any ideas at all?

Final edit... OK I tracked it down to bad/non-compatible memory and the board boots fine now. Just for the record, with Gigabyte m/bs a series of fast beeps indicates memory problems.. On Asrock boards it is a series of 3 shorts beeps.

 

[ishmael2k]

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[ishmael2k]

Originally posted by: ishmael2k
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[mdzapeer]

I think its the power supply, or you missed one of the connectors to your motherboard. The P4 requires a extra power connection to the board, I think. Anyway if you have everything connected then its most likely to be the power supply or in the worst case the motherboard or processor are duds.

 

[mdzapeer]

I think you missed a power connection most likely

 

[ishmael2k]

Originally posted by: mdzapeer
I think you missed a power connection most likely

Ahhh, no I didn't miss a power connection, thanks.

I have another update...

Purchased another m/b (Asrock P4i65GV) and this one acts about the same, fans power up and I get a series of beeps but no video. (Onboard) This time I get a repeating series of 3 beeps... Can't find anything on Asrock codes though...

I am getting real frustrated with this and am getting close to going back to P3s...

Going to get another PS and then maybe another stick of memory to see if one or the other is the culprit...

Any ideas at all out there???

Rob

 

[ishmael2k]

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[ishmael2k]

Originally posted by: ishmael2k
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