MB beeps on startup when HD's start
When I boot my Epox EP8-KTA MB with 2 Maxtor HD's when the drives start, there are 2 beeps together as a DTMF touch tone keypad sounds. This has started recently. The only thing that I can see is the drives are having trouble starting or some conflict when they both start at the same time.
When I boot my Epox EP8-KTA MB with 2 Maxtor HD's when the drives start, there are 2 beeps together as a DTMF touch tone keypad sounds. This has started recently.
The only thing that I can see is the drives are having trouble starting or some conflict when they both start at the same time. Usually one drives starts, then the other. But now many times they seem to start at the same time or nearly the same time.
The only hardware change is a memory upgrade to 2 256 sticks of PC133 SDRAM.
I'm running 2k w/sp2. VIA chipset and AMD 700 T-bird
The only thing that I can see is the drives are having trouble starting or some conflict when they both start at the same time. Usually one drives starts, then the other. But now many times they seem to start at the same time or nearly the same time.
The only hardware change is a memory upgrade to 2 256 sticks of PC133 SDRAM.
I'm running 2k w/sp2. VIA chipset and AMD 700 T-bird
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300W AMD approved. Same one from the last 1 1/2 years.
No.......
The memory uses a different voltage bus than the drives so that shouldn't have any effect.
The way the beeps are seems not to follow any code reference.
The memory uses a different voltage bus than the drives so that shouldn't have any effect.
The way the beeps are seems not to follow any code reference.
What no memory at all?
There is another thread on this topic somewhere, but I will be damned if I can find it. I thought I bookmarked it but I guess I didn't. The person seems to be having the same trouble and it is with Maxtor HD's.
Most seem to think it is a P.S. issue, but it only started recently and that was after the memory upgrade, though I still wonder what the memory has to do with the drives starting up.
The drives ARE reconized in ther bios and D.M. ok.
By the way, the problem also happens when the drives go to sleep once the O/S is up and running. I have the drives spin down after 10 min.
Most seem to think it is a P.S. issue, but it only started recently and that was after the memory upgrade, though I still wonder what the memory has to do with the drives starting up.
The drives ARE reconized in ther bios and D.M. ok.
By the way, the problem also happens when the drives go to sleep once the O/S is up and running. I have the drives spin down after 10 min.
I believe this is the formun that had the similar problem:
http://forums.storagereview.net/viewtopic.php?t=2408&highlight=beeps
http://forums.storagereview.net/viewtopic.php?t=2408&highlight=beeps
