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Wood$tock · 03-17-2005, 03:10 AM

Hiya Quizme1220!

I'm getting 6 beepe total, with 3 different "tones" or "pitches". They happen as follows:

2 Beeps - High Pitched

2 Beeps - Low Pitched

pause (about 1-2 seconds)

1 Beep - High Pitched

1 Beep - Normal Pitch (normal meaning this is the sound i'm used to hearing when it booted and there was only 1, normal, beep).

As for the CPU being seated properly and the right amount of Paste used, I guess they are. I'm not tootin my own horn by any means, but i've made/assembled 5 PC's and I used the same amount of Paste and care of CPU placement on this one that I used on all the others.

In BIOS, my CPU temp fluctuates, as does my MB, but both by a very small amount. CPU is 38-39 C, and MB is 24-24 C.

This all runs in a Koolance case, and the CPU Temp is accurately displayed on the LED that's part of the Koolance case. When playing games, like CS:S or BiA, the temp will jump to 44 C. At 45 C, the fans kick in for extra cooling and it holds steady at 45 C. The game still runs great, no weirdness at all, and as soon as I drop out of the game, the temp gradually drops back to mid 30's.

What's gettting me the most annoyed is the weird behavior of my windows environment since the change. For example:

I open up windows explorer and the whole window appears, but the contents of the window are blank for about 5 seconds then *poof*, they appear...

If I mouse to settings, then control panel (which I have set to expand), it USED to appear right then and their (I have menushowdelay set to 1). Now it takes 3 or 4 seconds. The "outline" of the contents of control panel appears as a big, empty, white area. 3 to 4 seconds later the contents appear...

I click on Explorer and it pauses 3 to 4 seconds THEN opens the window. Then it pauses another 3 to 4 seconds THEN the site appears. Initially I attributed this to lag or problems with my ISP. But given all the other oddities ocurring I don't know...

I just have a nagging suspicion that because of my new CPU I should update my BIOS and that would take care of all these little oddities. But when I went to do that, well, it didn't work (see first post).

I thought about doing the BIOS the old way (with a diskette), but that Live Update works (or worked) very well. Also, I don't even have a floppy drive. I decided I didn't need one, and that if I ever did I could use my thumbdrive. I don't know if I could use a thumbdrive though for flashing my BIOS. So i'd like to use the Live Update, but the damn thing won't even install, and that REALLY has me stumped. I even had my AV (Norton) disabled when I tried it, but it didn't work.

Any ideas?

03-17-2005, 03:10 AM	#3 (permalink)
Wood$tock Registered User Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 11 OS: XP Pro	Hiya Quizme1220! I'm getting 6 beepe total, with 3 different "tones" or "pitches". They happen as follows: 2 Beeps - High Pitched 2 Beeps - Low Pitched pause (about 1-2 seconds) 1 Beep - High Pitched 1 Beep - Normal Pitch (normal meaning this is the sound i'm used to hearing when it booted and there was only 1, normal, beep). As for the CPU being seated properly and the right amount of Paste used, I guess they are. I'm not tootin my own horn by any means, but i've made/assembled 5 PC's and I used the same amount of Paste and care of CPU placement on this one that I used on all the others. In BIOS, my CPU temp fluctuates, as does my MB, but both by a very small amount. CPU is 38-39 C, and MB is 24-24 C. This all runs in a Koolance case, and the CPU Temp is accurately displayed on the LED that's part of the Koolance case. When playing games, like CS:S or BiA, the temp will jump to 44 C. At 45 C, the fans kick in for extra cooling and it holds steady at 45 C. The game still runs great, no weirdness at all, and as soon as I drop out of the game, the temp gradually drops back to mid 30's. What's gettting me the most annoyed is the weird behavior of my windows environment since the change. For example: I open up windows explorer and the whole window appears, but the contents of the window are blank for about 5 seconds then poof, they appear... If I mouse to settings, then control panel (which I have set to expand), it USED to appear right then and their (I have menushowdelay set to 1). Now it takes 3 or 4 seconds. The "outline" of the contents of control panel appears as a big, empty, white area. 3 to 4 seconds later the contents appear... I click on Explorer and it pauses 3 to 4 seconds THEN opens the window. Then it pauses another 3 to 4 seconds THEN the site appears. Initially I attributed this to lag or problems with my ISP. But given all the other oddities ocurring I don't know... I just have a nagging suspicion that because of my new CPU I should update my BIOS and that would take care of all these little oddities. But when I went to do that, well, it didn't work (see first post). I thought about doing the BIOS the old way (with a diskette), but that Live Update works (or worked) very well. Also, I don't even have a floppy drive. I decided I didn't need one, and that if I ever did I could use my thumbdrive. I don't know if I could use a thumbdrive though for flashing my BIOS. So i'd like to use the Live Update, but the damn thing won't even install, and that REALLY has me stumped. I even had my AV (Norton) disabled when I tried it, but it didn't work. Any ideas? Last edited by Wood$tock; 03-17-2005 at 03:28 AM.