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one long beep at start up follow by many consecutive beeps, no display on monitor

On my computer, a long beep followed by several short ones means "no video card found." And since you say that there is nothing on the screen, this seems likely. Try reseating the card. If that fails, see if you can find a replacement card to test in the system.
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- Post #5
- Aug 13, 2003
- Forum: Computer Building
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Is my PSU dead?

Sure thing, Compudog. I'll let you know how it goes. I found their website to by very lacking in information about the RMA process, but I did find an e-mail address. I've already exchanged several e-mails with the RMA department. All mails were responded to within two or three hours. All...
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- Post #10
- Aug 11, 2003
- Forum: Computer Building
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Is my PSU dead?

Actually, it was not a cheap PSU at all. It was an Antec TruePower, top of the line. It does have a switch on the back, but it was turned on. I also checked for a bad outlet and a bad power cord, but none of that helped. The box it came in indicates that it has a three year warranty, so I'm...
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- Post #7
- Aug 9, 2003
- Forum: Computer Building
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Is my PSU dead?

The HSF was plugged into the fan header listed in my mobo manual as "CPU header". It's the same place it was hooked up before, so that's not the problem. I'm beginning to think that it just died and that it was a strange coincidence that it happened to die at the very same time that I was...
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- Post #3
- Aug 8, 2003
- Forum: Computer Building
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Is my PSU dead?

I've had my new computer running for a few days now. It's running a P4 2.4C and the BIOS indicates that its temperature is around 50C. Even with stock cooling, this seemed much too high, so I pulled the HSF off and reapplied the thermal compound. (Arctic Silver Ceramique) Everything was hooked...
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- Aug 8, 2003
- Replies: 9
- Forum: Computer Building
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Longer EIDE cables needed

I have a lian-li case where you can mount your hard drives at the bottom of the case, directly in front of two 80mm intake fans. The thing is, I want one drive in there, and another one in a removable drive rack in a 5.25 bay. Assuming I put the rack in the bottom slot, there is still around 8...
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- Aug 5, 2003
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Computer Building
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Random restarts, slow windows loading, and more...

I just partitioned that 180G drive into two 90Gig partitions and once again ran chkdsk on them. It reported zero bad sectors on the first partition, and ~40000000K of them on the second. It's not exactly the same number as before, but it's very close. I didnt' write it down, but it was just a...
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- Post #16
- Aug 5, 2003
- Forum: Computer Building
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Random restarts, slow windows loading, and more...

I just remembered that the 180GB WD drive came with some diagnostic software, so I used it to run an extended test, (with the drive still in the other newer computer) which took over an hour, so it had better be a very complete scan. It reported NO errors at all! There is a big difference...
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- Post #15
- Aug 4, 2003
- Forum: Computer Building
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Random restarts, slow windows loading, and more...

I ran the complete chkdsk on the 80GB drive and it reported no problems at all. It won't let me run it on the drive with the OS and wanted to schedule it for the next reboot time. I did this, but the results did not stay on the screen long enough for me to read them. Is there any log that was...
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- Post #14
- Aug 4, 2003
- Forum: Computer Building
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Random restarts, slow windows loading, and more...

I ran chkdsk and it said no bad sectors and that the file system was ok. I don't know much about the command though. Is there a parameter to do a more complete scan? Yes, that is correct. That was fixed however when I formatted the drive and reinstalled the OS. I just thought it was...
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- Post #12
- Aug 3, 2003
- Forum: Computer Building
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Random restarts, slow windows loading, and more...

Ok, guys. Unplugging my USB devices had no noticeable effect, but as I was unplugging them, I realized that my network cable was still plugged in. (It's integrated w/ the mobo, not a separate card which is why I forgot to unplug it) Anyway, with that cord unplugged, the tool bar apps loaded...
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- Post #10
- Aug 3, 2003
- Forum: Computer Building
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Random restarts, slow windows loading, and more...

I thought that you only needed drivers for the ATA card if it was going to control a bootable drive. I'm using it purely for data storage. I threw the card in, hooked up the drive and when I turned the system on, during the POST, it did a little thing where it detected any drives on the card...
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- Post #8
- Aug 3, 2003
- Forum: Computer Building
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Random restarts, slow windows loading, and more...

My last install of XP was done on a minimal system. I forgot to unplug my USB devices, but I didn't install drivers for any of them, so I don't think that will make any difference. I didn't add drivers for onboard sound, networking or anything like that either. XP still had that odd delay...
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- Post #6
- Aug 3, 2003
- Forum: Computer Building
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Random restarts, slow windows loading, and more...

Ok, I ran memtest for 10 passes and it came up with no errors. What else can I try?
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- Post #4
- Aug 3, 2003
- Forum: Computer Building
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Random restarts, slow windows loading, and more...

I have done no overclocking at all. I reset my BIOS yesterday and loaded the optimized default settings, so everything should be pretty standardized. I flashed it with the most recent BIOS revision while I was at it as well. I don't know what memtest86 is, but I'll google it in a minute and...
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- Post #3
- Aug 3, 2003
- Forum: Computer Building

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