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A single beep from the motherboard.. and then slowdown
Tiger-Heli:
>Loki i started the first program you gace me and it says that the >keyboard buffer is set to 128. What should i change it to?
One of the utilities wasu called 256 keys, I'd try 256. (You can always set it back).
>Also interesting to point out it says that the keyboard typematic rate >is set to BIOS. Not sure what that means but the beep that i am >getting is from the motherboard hence basically a bios beep. Could >this be related to the problm?
Doubtful - That's the setting that I was saying MAME ignores. You could try going into the BIOS and futzing with it and seeing if it makes any difference.
Truz:
well i tried setting the buffer to 256 but it still happened.
Truz:
just out of curiosity i ran the benchmark program 3dmark 2001se just to see if my computer could handle it and see if the beeping was related to a heavy work load being placed on the cpu. But the computer ran the program fine and did not produce the beep at all. I guess this rules out the possibility of it being a processor/ overheat problem.
Man this is really annoying that i can figure this out.
lokki:
I guess we are back on temperature.
The temperature is not too terribly high.
I do have a question did you buy install motherboard CPU or did you buy pre installed.
Are you testing with the Computer Case on the computer or with the case open?
on some factory manufactured PCs dell/hp/etc the cooling works better with the case closed. (better air flow).
Have you tried leaving the case open and leaving a small fan pointing to your mobo?
Is the heatsink for you cpu dirty? (
lokki:
--- Quote from: Truz on March 18, 2004, 02:30:15 pm ---just out of curiosity i ran the benchmark program 3dmark 2001se just to see if my computer could handle it and see if the beeping was related to a heavy work load being placed on the cpu. But the computer ran the program fine and did not produce the beep at all. I guess this rules out the possibility of it being a processor/ overheat problem.
--- End quote ---
Doesn't really rule out CPU over heating.
If you really want to stress test your CPU to see if it is overheating try running
http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm
Check out stress.txt in there and readme.txt for instructions on doing the stress test.
Also you can try
CPU Stability Test
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,7146,00.asp
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