Motherboard gone?

**redden137** · #1 23rd Feb 2008, 15:10

hi guys had a call from a friend about his pc, going round to have a look tomorrow, but in the meantime the problem is it wont boot at all he just gets a black screen and and "no signal" message on the moniter, all the pc does is give out a series of beeps, i asked him to count them and he said he gave up at thirty!!!!!
his board is an ecs and if i remember rightly the bios is an american trends, and if so these series of beeps either mean his psu is crocked or he has bad ram slots.
can anyone confirm this? or point me in the right direction
many thx

**spot** · #2 23rd Feb 2008, 15:44

Beeps cycle. It's the pattern that matters, not the absolute number. So many long, so many short, then a pause, then repeated. Maybe, on some motherboards anyway.

If you count the pattern when you get to hear it (or ring him back and ask him to sing it to you) and if possible - not essential - come up with the model of the motherboard, we can look it up.

**redden137** · #3 23rd Feb 2008, 15:50

the beeps are all exactly the same beeping every second or two over and over, the board is a
kn1 sli lite

**spot** · #4 23rd Feb 2008, 16:32

That's a Phoenix Award BIOS

The only AwardBIOS beep code indicates that a video error has occurred and the BIOS cannot initialize the video screen to display any additional information. This beep code consists of a single long beep followed by two short beeps. Any other beeps are probably a RAM (Random Access Memory) problems.

http://www.phoenix.com/en/Customer+S...rror+Codes.htm

(you might try reseating everything)

**redden137** · #5 23rd Feb 2008, 16:48

just checked the ecs website and the board does have ami bios and then checked beep code on other site and it states
"One beep is good! Everything is ok, that is if you see things on the screen. If you don't see anything, check your monitor and video card first. Is everything connected? If they seem fine, your motherboard has some bad chips on it. First reset the DIMM's and reboot. If it does the same thing, one of the memory chips on the motherboard are bad, and you most likely need to get another motherboard since these chips are soldered on. "
as hes getting one beep all the time i guess the memory chips are bad

**spot** · #6 23rd Feb 2008, 16:54

I'm not sure where you were reading but http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSite/Pro...nuID=1&LanID=0 has the download for the manual.

This is on page 27.

**redden137** · #7 25th Feb 2008, 04:47

hi m8 thx for ure help but its all academic now been over and his m/b is fried, nothing doing, just getting one second beeps one second apart all the time and nothing on screen at all, least hes got an excuse now to his mrs to upgrade, has a smile like a cheshire cat and rubbing his hands in glee at the thought of a quad core, not that he needs it with wot he does on the pc but still i suppose he wants bragging rights,
anyway again thx for ure input