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A single beep from the motherboard.. and then slowdown
Truz:
well i went and remapped the buttons, and it was looking good for a little bit. But than the beep came up again. I was getting excited because it looked like it may have solved my problem but then bam! the beep came again.
I guess we can rule that out as one of the problems
Could the problem be that the PSU isnt supplying enough power? This is my families old HP pavilion (yea i know... hp sucks) and i have added some new components to it from when we first got it. I added a sb live 5.1 card (had some generic crap in there) and i put in a geforce3 64mb in it also (it had a crappy tnt card in it). The psu is only 250w but i would think that would be enough to handle it right? This pc also has a cd burner and a dvd drive as well. Just a thought but maybe a problem. Is there any program or app to test the stressload or what not on the psu.
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: Truz on March 10, 2004, 01:01:59 pm ---well i went and remapped the buttons, and it was looking good for a little bit. But than the beep came up again. I was getting excited because it looked like it may have solved my problem but then bam! the beep came again.
I guess we can rule that out as one of the problems
Could the problem be that the PSU isnt supplying enough power? This is my families old HP pavilion (yea i know... hp sucks) and i have added some new components to it from when we first got it. I added a sb live 5.1 card (had some generic crap in there) and i put in a geforce3 64mb in it also (it had a crappy tnt card in it). The psu is only 250w but i would think that would be enough to handle it right? This pc also has a cd burner and a dvd drive as well. Just a thought but maybe a problem. Is there any program or app to test the stressload or what not on the psu.
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Maybe, but a psu would usually cause more problems - like this -
http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=16976
Nailz:
--- Quote from: Truz on March 10, 2004, 01:01:59 pm ---well i went and remapped the buttons, and it was looking good for a little bit. But than the beep came up again. I was getting excited because it looked like it may have solved my problem but then bam! the beep came again.
I guess we can rule that out as one of the problems
Could the problem be that the PSU isnt supplying enough power? This is my families old HP pavilion (yea i know... hp sucks) and i have added some new components to it from when we first got it. I added a sb live 5.1 card (had some generic crap in there) and i put in a geforce3 64mb in it also (it had a crappy tnt card in it). The psu is only 250w but i would think that would be enough to handle it right? This pc also has a cd burner and a dvd drive as well. Just a thought but maybe a problem. Is there any program or app to test the stressload or what not on the psu.
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That is a lot of hardware for a 250W PS, maybe try unhooking one of the cd drives and see if that helps. Also might not be a bad idea to see if your cpu fan is actually making contact with your cpu. I had this happen to me recently, no contact between them, the computer was ok until I did something a little more stressful, then it would barf. I applied a little thermal grease, and no more problems.....
Just one more thing to add to the list. :)
Truz:
ok, ill try disconnecting the disk drives.... as i dont really use them anyway (i use my ipod to transfer files over) and then i will see what happens. Also i have a pci modem in there that i dont use that i will take out as well. Ill try this stuff for the hell of it as i am desperate to figure this out as it is really bugging me. I think the fact that i dont know what it is is more annoying that the actual problem... hehe.
Truz:
well i went and disonnected both the cdr drive and the dvd drive from the psu and also removed the pci modem card. And i still received the beep from the motherboard. This really does suck. This is the pc i plan to put in a mame cab in the *hopefully* near future but it will be quite annoying if i get this beep every once in a while.
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