I Think I screwed up My Machine

jonnyp11

jonnyp11

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Well, lately my compaq in my sig has been doing a weird thing, every couple times i boot it it will do one long beep and 2 short ones, but i could unplug my hdd and plug it back in and it'd be fine after once or twice doing that. Earlier today it did it again but wouldn't start no matter how many times i did it, so i looked on the support page and it was saying it was a video error and couldn't display anything, which it didn't so it was right about that, but i looked it up and several things were saying what i thout, disconnect all you can other than power and ram and to reset cmos and other stuff like that, so i disconnected everything but the vga cord ram and power supply, and same thing, next i tried to reset the cmos but couldn't get the battery out, and something had said near the cmos there'd be 3 pins, and 2 would be covered by a sleeve and 1 exposed, and changing which it was on would reset the cmos, so i did, but i think i left it on the other 2 and hit the power, and nothing, then i put it back on the other 2 and power, and it turned into 1 long beep, long pause, like 5 sec, long beep, pause beep pause continuosly, let it go like 5 times b4 hitting the power button, then i tried to unplug the ram and swap their spots and a few configurations and all had the 1 beep, and then i cam down and started typing this, so can someone tell me i didn't **** my motherboard, please, i really don't want to hear the other option unless it's followed by my dad saying we won the lottery or my g-dad died and enhareted a load, preferably not the latter of the 2, but something that'd let me fund my build.
 
If you are getting a no video error, then you should try a different video card....unless you don't have one. Else it could possibly be the PSU. The jumper you are talking about will not mess up your mobo. just make sure you put it back in it's original position. If you could test either the video or the PSU of your system that would give you a good starting point.
 
Remove power from the power supply, remove the ram, remove the cmos battery, push the power button on the case a few times to discharge any remaining power. Then wait 5 minutes.... reinsert battery, reinsert memory, plug power back into power supply and try booting up.

To remove cmos battery all you have to do is pry the metal clip holding the battery in back a little to allow the battery to pop up.
 
i think i'll wait till tomarrow to do stuff, getting tierd, but hope what you said john will do it, really can't afford to get anything new, and no other vid cards and the mobo vga doesn't seem to work, and i really hate this cuz i just made a bootable ubuntu 10.04lts disk to install, so this really pisses me off.
 
well i went up and grabbed the disk to use on this and did the ram cmos and psu stuff, and noticed my compaq made by hp with a hdd from samsung and ram too has a toshiba cmos bettery, wtf is up with this thing, the only thing that isn't original is the ram, but there are 2 sticks and 1 is recognized as unknown brand and has chips on both sides, but it's the 256 and the samsung with chips on 1 side is the 512, sorta funny.
 
It doesn't the matter the brand of battery as long as its the required model of battery, usually cr-2032. You could also be having memory issues. The older HP/compaq pc's were very picky about the memory they liked. They should be the same brand and size. The one stick sounds like its high density and that could be part of your problem.
 
well they've both been in there for years, over 5, and this is a first, started less than a month ago, but i did all the stuff and put it back in this morning and now it's back to the original 1 long and 2 short beeps.
 
Please don't take offense to this comment, but the first post was painful to read. It would be much easier to help, if your entire post wasn't one long run-on sentence. Use periods and create sentences. I would give that an F if I was grading it.
 
well you're not and i'm not in school for another week so it's summer and i don't give a ****, you know you'd agree with that but your stuck working so you're just grumpy and being forced to write correctly, despit what you'd think every teacher i've had has told me i'm one of the best writers in the class or they've ever had, on the 1 or 2 papers i applied myself that is.
 
yes, that's what it says on the award bios section on my comps. support page, too bad i have phoenix bios and have tried using the onboard vga output, and it's normally an on-off problem that stops after a few tries, this time it won't start, i think my machine may just be dying, it is from at least '01, might be older, so it's over 10 years old, not impossible it's failing, and if my dad'll get home i might be able to get the 600watt corsair on sale today and it's not impossible that the psu is failing and if it con't get enough power on the board for the gfx card to run then it would cause a video problem, so that might solve it, and i'll have a great quality psu for when i get an actuall build going.
 
yep, got hotmail, like 3 or more accounts actually, also xbox 360 with gold subscription, tempted to drop for the money instead, christmas present is always 12 month, but why do you ask
 
Bumpity,

still got the 1 long and 2 short, running on the original mobo for my compaq presario S4030NX, phoenix bios, going to pull the gpu tonight and try the mobo's vga output, really getting annoyed by this, and danny, you never said y you asked about hotmail/msn
 
If you replace the video card and are still having issues I would say the motherboard is faulty. If you get 5 years out of a computer component you definitely got your money out of it.
 
Actually, it was my graphics card, it wasn't seated correctly, but i got it to start and all, to recieve a message saying that my windows/drivers/ntfs file was either missing or currupt
 
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