Morning all, After around 3 months of plain sailing my Vista based comp stopped working yesterday after a normal shutdown. I wasnt getting any beeps or visual cues initially, the comp would just restart continuously in a loop. Decided to clear the CMOS and since doing so i hear what appears to be 1 long beep and 2 short beeps on boot up. Am i right in thinking this is indicating a video fault of some sort? Board has an Award BIOS. Strangely in the back ground there is a continuous high pitched noise occuring on boot? Any help would be appreciated.... Cheers. I REGISTERED WITH COMPUTING.NET AN ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOWSY SIGNATURE!! P4 3.6 Prescott DFI Lanparty UT 915P-T12 2x160GB Samsung SATA 2x 1GB Corsair DDR400 Tagan 600W PSU X1900XTX

To begin with, I assume your board is a GA-EP45-DQ6? If you look at the specs, it uses an Award BIOS. Then if you look at the Award BIOS beep code list, you'll find that 1 long, 2 short = video adapter error.

Correct it is a GA-EP45-DQ6. There werent enough spaces to put the proper code in, sorry. As i said in my post thats what i suspected but thought i'd check to see if anoyone with the same or similar board had had the same problem? Have you any idea what the continous high pitched noise is? Thanks. I REGISTERED WITH COMPUTING.NET AN ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOWSY SIGNATURE!! P4 3.6 Prescott DFI Lanparty UT 915P-T12 2x160GB Samsung SATA 2x 1GB Corsair DDR400 Tagan 600W PSU X1900XTX

"Have you any idea what the continous high pitched noise is?" The fan on the graphics card might be a pretty good guess?

"...you'll find that 1 long, 2 short = video adapter error." "...there is a continuous high pitched noise occuring on boot?" 1+1=2 That's where I'd start. Skip

Cheers for the replies, i reseated the graphics card and all seemed ok. Reinstalled XP as Vista wasnt doing it for me. The above problem has happened again once, i just readjusted the card again and it booted fine. Might be an indication of a faulty PCI port or my cards on the way out... I REGISTERED WITH COMPUTING.NET AN ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOWSY SIGNATURE!! P4 3.6 Prescott DFI Lanparty UT 915P-T12 2x160GB Samsung SATA 2x 1GB Corsair DDR400 Tagan 600W PSU X1900XTX