Need to install drivers for unidentified MB and CPU

[Dimitri]

Strange problem (1 long beep at startup)

I have a computer that someone brought in to fix, it beeps loudly on startup (Gigabyte MB), and the radeon Sapphire video card's fan isn't running.

The computer has just had win xp installed (someone was dealiing with it before me, I don't know precisely what they did), and the drivers for the video card and a network card are still not installed. I assume chipset drivers aren't either.

The thing runs for about 5 minutes (sometimes shorter) and then the screen goes VERY dark, you can barely see the outlines of the windows, and then it goes out completely and the monitor says no signal. This happens every time after variable amouts of time, like around 5 mins mostly.

The on board video card gives no screen at all, even at startup.

The radeon has two dvi ports and plugging the monitor into the other one gives no signal either (when the signal cuts off).

Anybody have any ideas what might be up?

 

[johnb35]

Video card is most likely shot. Remove it so the on board video will work and post an update. The model number of the gigabyte board is stamped on it, usually either by the memory slots or pic slots. Once you know the model number you can download drivers. What power supply is in it?

 

[Dimitri]

The power supply is 230 V 50 hz.

I tried removing the video card and putting another one in, a big beefy job (I don't know which one it was), one that you had to connect to the power supply, and that one didn't show image at all. Still the same beep.

There's a long loud beep in the beginning, then some few seconds pass and then there's that normal short beep you hear at startup of a computer. Interestingly, the long beep only sounds when you power the computer on, if you restart the computer you won't hear the long beep. Only if you turn it off and then on.

Anyway, tehn I kept that one in and started removing the two memory cards. Took the first one in, everything's the same, then I put it back in and remove the other one, and now there IS image and the image doesn't go away after 5 mins or 20 mins. Still the same long beep at the beginnig, tho.

So I identified the MB by what it says on it and downloaded and installed the drtivers.

Then I put back the original video card, without putting the suspect memory back in and it works fine, image doesn't go away, but the fan is still not working on it. Incidentally, the video card is a Radeon Sapphire HD 4670, PCI E, I found the drivers on an ATI or sapphire or something like that website, clicked download and it sent me to the AMD site where it said my download didn't go through because they don't allow linking to other sites.

So then I look for the drivers on the AMD website, but they don't have it.

Well, anyway, so what's the conclusion here? I suppose that memory card I removed is faulty, right, but then there's still that long beep. Everything is working fine now (except the cooler on the video card) but there's that beep.

I looked here

http://www.gigabyte.com/support-downloads/faq-page.aspx?fid=816

it says 1 long and 1 short means memory error, but, I don't know whether these beeps have to happen together to be considered part of the same beep, if you know what I mean. Because, as I say, there's a long beep and then a few seconds pass, and that normal one short beep.