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Hi, I recently built a custom computer and the minute I turn it on, it immediately has 2 short beeps, and 1 loud irritatingly long beep... At first I figured it was because there was no OS installed, however the beep still continued after I installed XP successfully. I can successfully boot up Windows, install drivers/program and there is no visible problems.

One thing I did afterwards was go into the bios and loaded optimal performance defaults. Surprisingly, the loud long beep disappeared, but the 2 short beeps continued and instead of the annoying long beep that follows right after, I receive the "successful boot beep" sound that I heard a million times in my previous computers. Dunno how to describe that sound but... its the beep sound that goes off on a successful post I believe.

If there is ONE symptom, I found out that in the BIOS menu the keyboard response is EXTREMELY slow. For example, if I press the down arrow key, there is a 3~4 second lag before going down the menu. What does this imply? This happens in both my USB and ps/2 keyboards.

Again, no visible problems after boot up but I'm concerned about problems that may prop up later along the road. I still have time to return/replace parts so I'd like to find out exactly what the problem is. Any recommendations?

BTW my motherboard is an MSI G31M3-L V2 with an AMI bios. Ram is a Corsair DDR2 PC2-6400 Twin XMS(2gbx2). Listing these because it seems if there is hardware problem, its usually these two that would signal beep codes.

Please help me solve this problem, thanks!

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    Re: Bios beep during post, computer turns on fine - no visible problems, help!
    « Reply #1 on: November 05, 2008, 07:49:07 AM »
    http://www.bioscentral.com/  <<---go there and down the left hand side is a list of bios systems and the post beep codes, use that to identify what the beep codes mean. Gl