Recently I purchased a new motherboard, CPU, and Ram setup. It was a modest purchase but is a decent bump up from where I was. For the most part the upgrade went smoothly and the system has been running happily for several days now. The only hiccup was that my video card doesn't seem to like my new setup for some reason.

If I put it in and turn the thing on there is one loud, constant beep until I turn it back off. I can't find any useful information about what that means from the manual, the website, or the BOIS known beep codes, but am really wishing I could use my video card. Its a bit unexpected and the only thing I can think of is it just doesn't work for some compatibility reason, or maybe the system is using just enough more power invalidate my little 500w PSU, but that’s only a guess. The axillary power connector is plugged in, using the same PSU. The mobo is basically the same, the new and old CPU's are both 95watts, and I'm even sans one IDE DVD drive that the board doesn't support. Power use should be fairly similar, but if that’s not it I think I'm just SOL.

Anyone happen to know what a long screaming beep on an Award BIOS, Gigabyte board means, or have any magic spells that resolve video card issues?

Google says it's a RAM error. Make sure memory modules are properly seated.

Edit:

Looks like Gigabyte uses custom beep codes, see this post on the Gigabyte Community forum. According to this source, the code means "Graphics card not inserted properly", which doesn't help you much, but at least fits your situation better.

Definitely not a RAM issue. The system is fine without the video card inserted. I seated the thing three times, and find it hard to imagine that I'm screwing such a simple thing up, but it does sound relevant.

That link is way better than anything I was able to dig up on my own. Good find, thank you.

and is that a kitten with a frog face hat? If so, cool.

Sounds like a seating issue, (maybe too much dust in the slot?), vram issue, or underpowered card.

Do you get video at all?

Are you replacing onboard video with a card? (if so, turn onboard video off in the bios.)

Also let a buddy pop into his machine to verify it works.

Hope it works out, if not, feel free to pm, and hello, nice to see you again.

The board had on-board video that is happy as can be. Thus I am here. The card was working 1 hour before in my old setup before I tried to put it into my new one, so I believe with reasonable certainty that it is a good card. If I had a spare PSU I could start the old system still using the card to double check, but I don't and I'm fairly certain nothing happened to it.

I don't see any BIOS options for disabling the video, or manual notes that one should. I've never had to do that before, so I'm doubting that is an issue. I may try to get a firm seating again here shortly and see if it works.

Look for BIOS option, it is there somewhere.

I will. I assume one would have to reset the CMOS to get it back.?

No, just disabling the onboard in the BIOS, saving it, turning machine off, popping card in (careful of static crap and power off states that aren't,) and see if it works. If not, just re-enable onboard in BIOS, and you are back where you started from.

It sounds like you need a bigger power supply... the board is out of juice..

"IF" the card is known to be 100% good and working I'm betting you have a power issue... If you were in my shop id slap in a 800w and i think that would do the trick, baring a bad mobo port or bad mobo all together....

Well that was fun. found the option in a less than obvious place. Put the card back in, removed power to the harddrive to try and make some juice, and made sure it was seated as well as possible. Same result -screaming. I did have to reset the CMOS because I had no video to see the BIOS with. That jacked the clock up which I've learned from experience Linux freaks out about thinking the file system is corrupt. Fixed the clock and am now back to normal with my unsexy Radeon3000 integrated video. I'm going to hope its just the PSU. Not that I will be able to test the hypothesis any time soon.

It's going to sound obvious, but have you made sure it's in the right slot? If you have 2 PCIe slots and only one card, you need to make sure it's in the higher of the two slots (towards the top of the case) with certain mobo's otherwise the mobo won't read the card and will give you a seating error.

Also, if there is a little tab at the end of the PCIe slot, make sure you hear the right side of the card "pop" into the slot as that is a locking mechanism.

Did the 'beep' come from the motherboard or was the power supply chirping?

Can you post some details of the hardware? I haven't seen anything but vague details. Is it a high end card which requires extra power? I mean, just googling "H61 Radeon 6950 problem" could bring up something, if only there was some detail of the chipset and card.

Just the one slot, and I made sure it was in all the way 4 times.

To tell the truth I'm 100% sure what is making it, but it sounds like a classic PC speaker, which is odd since I don't remember wiring one up. Was amusing the board had something built in but I don't see one. It may actually be the video card screaming.


http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4125#ov
Rev 5.0 Board sold with newest BIOS supporting FX.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130379
Had it for awhile. Does us a 6-pin auxiliary connector for power.

I would like to test the rig with more power, but I won't be doing that just yet due to the no job thing.

Googling about problems with that graphics card, looks like the problem is one of:

- Card isn't seated well (you checked that)
- Auxiliary power connector isn't seated well
- The card is dead

But another long shot: what's your CPU? Your board supports only 95W CPU's. Perhaps putting a graphics card which draws a lot of power causes some power instability which would make even that not work well.