**Official ABIT IP-35 Pro Review/Overclock/Guide Thread**

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The weird beeping .... Does your board continue to boot up. If so, after it finishes booting and load windows, fireup guru to see where the warning is coming from.

If beeping but board does not boot up, what's the diagnostic code show on the mobo?

Also 60-66C in the bios is high. check your cpu heat sink fan install. I normally don't spread AS5 all over the CPU. I just put a pea size drop on the center of cpu surface (you cpu core is in the middle) and put the heat sink on top. The pressure & temp should fill /spread AS5 evenly.

the OS isn't installed. however, it is able to boot up and get into the bios and the "beep" (more like an alarming whistle-beep) keeps going.

according the artic silver website, if you have a quad core (i have the Q6600), a thin line of AS5 should be applied horizontally across the center of the cpu's heatspreader. this is my first time using a 775 board, GeminII, and AS5. i wasn't confident after the cpu/heatsink installation, so i wouldn't be surprised if this was the problem.

so yah, how 'tight' should i screw those nuts behind the mobo to mount the geminII? let me rephrase this.... how many full rotations for each of the 4 nuts should be applied after the screw-head touches the rubber spacer?:

screw head
rubber spacer
mobo
washer
nut