System will not boot, 1 beep followed by 8 beeps?

Question

I just upgraded my motherboard, cpu, and PSU, i am using my old hard drives, optical drives and video card.

When i power on the system i get 1 beep, then right fater that 8 fast beeps come. the system does not post and there is no display.

please help

It is an MSI K9A Platinum AM2 Ati chipset board. I purchased 2 gigs of OCZ ATi Crossfire memory to go with it. I started pulling parts and when i use my old power suply and video card i get post, when i use just my video card and old psu it turns on but no post, if i use the new psu and old vid card i get nothing. this is strange.

Answer 1

which motherboard is that you are using, depending on the manufacturer it could indicate various problems. I just searched the web and foudn that a 1 - 8 sequence with AMI mobos means " Video memory error Bad video card or memory"

but a 1-4-4 (which might sound like 1-8...) with a Phoenix means NMI port failure Bad motherboard

hope this help you

Answer 2

What I can suggest to you is do the following
1. After the PC is on, do you see the light on the floppy
If yes
then check if the lights on the CD-ROM is lighted up.
This part of it shows that the programs are intact and nothing is corrupted..
Nornmally, when the PC is switched on, they check if theu have the graphics card. If there is no Graphics card they will beep. The beep represents something and this depends solely on the BIOS you are using. Check at the below link to see what BIOS u are usingl. The common ones are AWARD, PHOENIX, IBM and AMI. See the web and then check for the similar beelp code.

The other thing that u can do is that u can remove the new graphics card and then plug in the old one and it might work

The next thing I suspect is the RAM placement. Check if the RAM is placed correctly and make sure that it is compatible with the CPU. You must understand that the RAM slot has 0 & 1. These slots, if the RAM is placed in the wrong slot will also cause the CPU to gabraaaa... Check the possibilities. Normally these are the common problems

Answer 3

it sounds like your memory... is incompatible. with the motherboard... if you have upgraded the m/board, and cpu, then used your old memory which may not be faster enough for the new board,, look in your new m/board manual to see what memory you need to use with it

or it could be any number of things,,,,, read your m/board manual. fault finding it will tell you