All I get is a beeping sound coming from my HD. 1400Mhz Athlon, 266 DDR, XP Pro, Epox MB, G force...... It was all working so well, a few minor problems now and then. I was copying some files and XP locked up which it has several times, I pushed the reset button and when it started again nothing but the beeping. I opened the case disconnected the small battery, pulled the video card and the ram and waited 10 minutes or so. Put it all back still the same thing. I did this again and also pulled the ribbon card and power on the HD . I put it back together and it worked for 10 minutes and shut down, black screen and the beeping. ANY IDEAS CPU problem or what. Thanks for any help

This is just a guess, but from what you described, it sounds like either your hard drive is on it's last legs, or you may need a new mother board.

Another guess, but the beeping only happens when the motherboard cannot communicate with a required piece of Hardware. Such as the memory, CPU, or Video Card. It's a possibility your CPU overheated. This will cause permanent damage in the Athlon CPU's. Try swapping in a new stick of RAM or maybe a different video card. You could even try flashing the bios to the latest version. My Epox motherboards work great.

I got a similar repetitive beeping noise when I was installing a new video card. Like the above post, turns out the card wasn't inserted far enough into the AGP slot. I had to bang it in with a hammer before it would even post. Try reinserting everything and giving everything a few quick knocks in place. Mike S.

My husband fixed a computer that was doing exactly the same thing...just do what Mike said...but you may not want to hit it with a hammer...you may end up ruining it, In any case, just push the video card in as hard as possible until it finally works! Any questions? my husbands e-mail addy is muzikmon@msn.com

hehe that actually just happened to me today...my video card wasn't inserted far enough. but just to be sure, either go to Epox's web site or your BIOS maker's web site, and look for their support documents to find out exactly what that many beeps means. For your convenience here's a couple common BIOS links: American Megatrends: http://www.ami.com/support/doc/beep_codes.pdf Award/Phoenix: http://www.phoenix.com/pcuser/awardbios/award_error_codes.html

Hi all, I am having the same problem but i dont think is the Video card Coz i have 512 DDR ram (2 x 256)and when i pull one of them out it booted up fine so i put the other one back in but after a few goes no matther which one i put it it just wont start....please help... AMD 1.4 512 DDR Gigabyte M/B Abit Geforce 400mx 40g hdd WinXP Pro