Upgraded my system, new K7S5A motherboard, 1.4 Athlon Cpu, and 512 DDR. That is what is new. With the video card, hard drive, and 512 ram, I get two real fast beeps, followed by 8 beeps. Then it continues a boot process and I get 2 beeps followed by one beep. All this time the screen is blank. If I take out the ram, no beeps but still a blank screen. The hard drive has Win98 on it. According to a beep code site I found, the 8 beeps is video related, but the 1 and 2 beeps are memory related. Not sure where to go from here, I would think I would have a screen to work with.

From what it sounds like Display memory read or write failure try reseating the video card &reseat the AGP bus cards.if that does not work replace your Video card.post back if none of that helps.

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I don't know what it had to do with anything, but I formatted the C drive of the hard drive and went with a clean C drive. The system booted up, but I had a ton of problems after that, overheating for one. So I took the motherboard/cpu out of the case and reseated the cpu fan, reinstalled everything and now I'm back to the beeps! When you say 'reseat the AGP bus cards', what do you mean by that? My video card is my AGP card, is there something else (AGP bus card?) that needs to be reset? I'm not sure what you mean by that. Anyway, I'm going to pull a TNT2 Ultra out of my other system and see what happens. If that doesn't work I'm getting another board, this is ridiculous. Both video cards were working fine before I 'upgraded'.


Originally posted by YODA74:
From what it sounds like Display memory read or write failure try reseating the video card &reseat the AGP bus cards.if that does not work replace your Video card.post back if none of that helps.

Howdy,

1.Try swapping a known good video card. Power up.
Make sure your not using DDR ram with pc 133-100 ram. This board supports both, but you cannot use them at the same time. Still not working? 2.Unplug everything from the slots on the board, except video. Power up. Still not working? 3.Unplug cd-rom, floppy, hard drive, dvd drive, zip etc...Power up.Did you remember to goop the cpu before putting the fan on, or does the fan come with a strip already on it? This chip runs hot! You need to have a kick-butt heat sink and fan. Check your jumper setting on the board as well. Seems like I always have to fiddle with the board to get it to work with the 1.4 Athlon. Try to boot the system to the bios. Once in the bios, usually by punching "delete" at the ram count, make sure the settings are right. Turn the cpu alarm to a higher setting. When it did boot, what did the cpu register at? Was it a 1.4? Try this for now and get back to us with an update. Have a good one, and by the way, why does slow-up and slow-down mean the same thing?

Dave http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

Daves has given some good advice, but it turns out that the CPU is the culprit itself-i've also got the K7S5a board, and after trying to install it fresh with the 1.4 Athlon i found myself with a few niggling problems-you need to upgrade the BIOS on this board before it will work reliably with the 1.4 birds.


It now has run stable and fast for the last 5 months. Remember to not try to use SDRAM and DDRSDRAM sticks at the same time.

Disconnect every thing but the video card and floppy, flash the BIOS, then proceed with normal installation, and as was suggested-make VERY sure you have the CPU and HSF combo correct! The 1.4 birds run extremely hot compared to the others.


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