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Title: PC not booting, siren beep sound.
Post by: mabe51 on March 12, 2007, 04:20:57 PM

I recently built my PC and and when i try to boot up it will not turn the monitor on and it makes, first of all One long beep sound, then short pause, then contiuous Euro siren sound.  What does this mean.  My computer has phoenix bios if that helps any. thank you any help will be greatly appreciated.

Title: Re: PC not booting, siren beep sound.
Post by: street1 (RIP) on March 12, 2007, 04:33:26 PM

Are you sure your memory is seated properly?

BIOS beep codes.......

http://www.pchell.com/hardware/beepcodes.shtml

Title: Re: PC not booting, siren beep sound.
Post by: ale52 on March 12, 2007, 09:28:37 PM

Sometimes you need to put the RAM sticks in alternate slots as opposed to next to each other.  

Alan <><  :D

Title: Re: PC not booting, siren beep sound.
Post by: mabe51 on March 13, 2007, 05:36:43 PM

Yes but i only have one memory stick, it is a 1gb stick and i have tried it in different slots and still the same error beep codes.

Title: Re: PC not booting, siren beep sound.
Post by: uesquebeathus on March 14, 2007, 07:39:37 AM

What is the motherboard?
if you have 2 or 3 slots some motherboards will work all right,
 but if you have 4 slots they must be paired, one each in either first and third or  one each in the First and second, often the nearest pair to the CPU as a rull.
the motherboard manufacturer and spec name numbers would help us a lot.

Title: Re: PC not booting, siren beep sound.
Post by: patio on March 14, 2007, 12:54:06 PM

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Yes but i only have one memory stick, it is a 1gb stick and i have tried it in different slots and still the same error beep codes.

Is this the proper RAM for that MBoard ? ?

They are not all the same...

Title: Re: PC not booting, siren beep sound.
Post by: mabe51 on March 16, 2007, 08:50:34 PM

i gotta Acorp Mainboard 48675Pen and yeah i only have one stick of mem

Title: Re: PC not booting, siren beep sound.
Post by: patio on March 18, 2007, 07:44:03 PM

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i gotta Acorp Mainboard 48675Pen and yeah i only have one stick of mem

I don't understand what this means...

Title: Re: PC not booting, siren beep sound.
Post by: mabe51 on March 23, 2007, 02:32:59 PM

This is the board i am using: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=009&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWN%3AIT&viewitem=&item=190081972119&rd=1&rd=1

Title: Re: PC not booting, siren beep sound.
Post by: patio on March 23, 2007, 02:38:41 PM

That eBay picture still tells me nothing...did you recieve any manuals with  this board ? ?

Title: Re: PC not booting, siren beep sound.
Post by: Raptor on March 24, 2007, 11:40:55 AM

Reseat evertyhing. Apply thermal paste. Connect all power connectors.