Video POST errors

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colinhugg

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I spin a familiar yarn - I just built a new computer. I have an ECS 755-A2 mobo w/an AMD Sempron 3000 64-bit chip and 400 W power supply, 1 gb memory and a Jaton GF MX4000 128 AGP 8x video card (NO onboard video). When I power up, I get an Award BIOS video post error code (no picture on the monitor - at all). 1 long beep and 2 short ones. I have stripped everything back out and left only the board, chip, memory, and video card. I get the POST problem with or without the video card in it. I can unplug the ATX 12V connector and make ALL of the POST errors quit, but I know it has to beep at least once to tell if it's okay and doing that still doesn't resolve my problem. My question is, what could be the culprit? I don't have ready access to another AMD computer so I can't test all the components. My first thought is bad video card, but why would it do it regardless of whether or not the video card is installed? Thanks in advance.
 
Hmmm..
the only thing i can think of is resetting your bios. Look on your mobo and take out that small battery for about a minute and put it back in.
 
colinhugg said:
I spin a familiar yarn - I just built a new computer. I have an ECS 755-A2 mobo w/an AMD Sempron 3000 64-bit chip and 400 W power supply, 1 gb memory and a Jaton GF MX4000 128 AGP 8x video card (NO onboard video). When I power up, I get an Award BIOS video post error code (no picture on the monitor - at all). 1 long beep and 2 short ones. I have stripped everything back out and left only the board, chip, memory, and video card. I get the POST problem with or without the video card in it. I can unplug the ATX 12V connector and make ALL of the POST errors quit, but I know it has to beep at least once to tell if it's okay and doing that still doesn't resolve my problem. My question is, what could be the culprit? I don't have ready access to another AMD computer so I can't test all the components. My first thought is bad video card, but why would it do it regardless of whether or not the video card is installed? Thanks in advance.
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The culprit is only determined if the video card fails in another system... if it doesn't - it could be the mobo... do you have another one of these lying around?
 
Well, I happened to have another computer w/an AGP slot open - plugged it in and it worked just fine. Shipped the mobo off and workin' on gettin' a new one. Thanks!
 
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