royalmarine

mine does that when i turn it on with no heatsink on it.

i touched it once when i was a wee idiot noob and burnt my finger

voyagerfan99

Could your motherboard be bad? I had the same issue with a friend's Compaq. It would freeze and just have one long unending beep.

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The make and model as well as what is actually being heard when is the best thing to go by when trying to isolate the hardware itself. Since each different bios will not always point at the same thing that information is the first place to start. On most boards however a constant steady single beep is not good! unless something was left unplugged?

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royalmarine

thats why i suggested the power cable for the gpu. in the first post.
i always forget mine when im changing sli config.

but im not sure if the op's gpu needs a 6pin cable?

royalmarine

butter22, on your power supply do you have one of these cables?
you should have one on your power supply. IF YOU DONT, THEN USE THE SECOND CABLE IN THE PICTURE THAT CAME WITH THE GRAPHICS CARD. it plugs into 2 normal molex connections and into the gpu.



it needs to be plugged into the graphics card here

oscaryu1

Each motherboard/BIOS chip has its own specific beep code. Look it up.

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Butter22

I looked up the beep code and it said, power error. so does that mean my psu is crap?

oscaryu1

Not necessarily. Post your PSU and computer specs up.

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royalmarine

he has
HIS Radeon 3850, Gigabyte S series, Okia 650wt psu, AMD X2 5200

i never heard of Okia psu.
did you connect both cable's to the motherboard?

disconnect everything.

put in 1 stick of ram, the cpu and cooler and the graphics card.
no harddrive and no dvd drive.
connect the keyboard and turn it on. see if that works.

stretch37

How carefully did you build it?

Sometimes its worth tearing down and re-assembling. Once you know you have done everything correctly, and its still beeping (check out google for the beep pattern) you might have to resort to swapping out individual parts for known good working parts to determine which piece of hardware is faulty in your new system.

Good luck!