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trifid
03-29-2005, 07:10 AM
Hi all,

My Pc has recently decided not to boot at all. When I turn it on I get 1 long beep (with the post code "0d" - LED on mobo) followed shortly by continuous high short beeps (with post code "41"). There is nothing on the screen.

Pc Specs: AMD 64 3000 939, Av8 3rd eye, 1536 Geil Dual Channel Value ram, 6800 XFX, 330W Truepower.

If this helps at all, just before this, my PC made a siren noise. I restarted and managed to get to windows (with the date and time erased) . I then did another resart which crashed in the DOS posting screen, with half the screen in blue. It has now gone to my listed problem above.

So far I have tried switching the RAM modules and clearing CMOS, but no luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Trif.
Disposibleteen
03-29-2005, 08:44 AM
look in your mobo manual to see what the code means, that will tell you what is failing during POST.
trifid
03-29-2005, 08:55 AM
Those ones are not in there.
Disposibleteen
03-29-2005, 09:04 AM
maybe download the manual at the manufacterers website, that should be more up to date than what shipped with the motherboard.
trifid
03-29-2005, 09:08 AM
Already done that, they are not in there either.
i found nemo
03-29-2005, 06:24 PM
how about replaceing that little watch battery on the mobo, that would seem to be one issue if ur date is messed up, and your time aswell
trifid
03-30-2005, 11:21 AM
It is so nice having the pc back.

Just for future referance, the solution was to flash the bios. It seems so weird and amazing how the pc did it, as I put the new bios on a floppy, and it flashed it for me. How did it know what to do?....
jayjaya29
03-30-2005, 06:33 PM
Some of the new mobos have really easy flash things that do it in a jiffy. My friend's old computer was having a somewhat similiar problem, I updated his BIOS and now it doesn't crash when he is doing his day-long MMORPG binges.


Hehehe, I said jiffy.
calcal
03-31-2005, 10:08 PM
No beep at all - this means your motherboard is dead, either due to a defective or underpowered power supply, poorly seated CPU or RAM, or a dead-on-arrival board

One beep - board is working fine

One long beep then machine shuts down - faulty, improperly installed or missing CPU

1 short(Beep) System booting is normally

2 short(Beep) CMOS setting error

1 long - 1 short(Beep) DRAM ERROR

1 long - 2 short(Beep) Display card or monitor connected error

1 long - 3 short(Beep) Keyboard Error

1 long - 9 short(Beep) ROM Error

Long(Beep) continuous DRAM isn't inserted correctly

Short(Beep) continuous POWER supply has a problem

A two-tone siren, generally caused by overheating or out of specification voltages

Four beeps then machine shuts down.