continuous beeping

[chompison]

The other day I decided to reformat my comp, did some tinkering inside with my mod lights and such and added some thermal paste for the cpu. I turned it back on to reinstall XP and get things back on track but now I get one continuous beep and after a while it just dies.

I read that it's a bad psu/mobo warning but it worked completely fine the day before and I really don't want to get a new PSU or mobo. What could I have done to cause this?

[rjfvillarosa]

Go back in and retrace your steps, you must have knocked something loose and it could be shutting down through over heating, make sure when you replaced the CPU grease you put everything back to gether correctly.

[dudeitskevin22]

I got continuous beeping too. It didnt post just beeped continuously.

The reason for my computer to beep like that was because the motherboard was dead.

Maybe messing with the CPU killed it, its what happened to me. Some coolant maybe got on the otherside of the cpu and when you put it in it probably cooked the motherboard

[chompison]

Well something is cooking. I went into CMOS and the CPU temperature is 80 celsuis at idle!!! Normally it would never be more than 33 under those conditions. Thermal paste my ass!

But it does run. I've been trying to reinstall windows XP and at random points it dies, so I start over. This was before I realized the heat.

[Cricket]

What are the complete system specs for this computer? List the parts by brand and model including the power supply.

Are you sure you used the right amount of thermal compound? You only need a very small amount for it to do it's job properly. And you don't use thermal compound and a thermal pad at the same time...it's one or the other.

Are you sure you reinstalled the heatsink properly?

:) Cricket

[rjfvillarosa]

What CPU and heatsink have you got?
Does it have a thermal pad or does it use thermal paste?

[chompison]

psu - PS500AC - 500 watt
cpu - BX80547PG3000EJ - intel p4 3.0ghz lga 775
floppy - FA404M-BK
hdd (x2) - HDS724040KLSA80
mobo - GA-8I915P
video - ati radeon x700 pro PCI-E
ram - KHX3200AK2/1G
optic (x2) - GSA-4167B - dvd burner

I'm using the original heatsink that came with the cpu, but after repeated removal of it from the cpu, the thermal pad started to wear away so I wanted to replace it with thermal paste.

Also keep in mind that this whole thing has worked flawlessly, though warm at times, for five months - since I built it.

[glc]

You probably have not properly snapped the heatsink pins down and locked them. You do one at a time, OUT of the case, and they must audibly CLICK before you twist and lock.

To replace a thermal pad with paste, you MUST completely remove all traces of the pad from both the processor and heatsink.

Intel sells replacement thermal pads and pins in their online store. The pads are a buck each, the pins are 2 bucks each.

[minsonngo]

It does sound like your heatsink/fan was not installed properly. What is your BIOS and how many beeps are there until it stops. Here is a few websites with BIOS beep codes that may help you isollate your problem.


http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm

http://dtic.ac-versailles.fr/stations/hard/biosbeep.htm

http://bioscentral.com/

[chompison]

Securing the power supply solved the problem. Thanks guys!