doug Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 Hi it's me on No.2 daughter's PC. Mine has gone dead all of a sudden. Basically, when I switch on all I can get is 2 beeps followed by 8 beeps from the system speaker. I've tried swapping the HDD's and the IDE sockets. Unplugged and replugged everything. Swapped the memory, a 512M DDR, for 2 x 125M SDRAM units - different sockets. All combinations either give the same sound info above or nothing at all. I don't even get the BIOS startup screen. Summats gone orf. It's an Elite K7S5A Socket A M/B with and AMD CPU, Q-TEC PSU 400w Dual Fan and a PNY Verto GeForce Ti4200 graphics card. Monitor seems OK because it's in built message comes up OK ( an LCD unit plugged into the digital output. The monitor gives an alternate digital/analogue message until the computer kicks in. Obviously I will be very grateful for any info to assist in diagnosing the fault. Even some sympathy would be welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dadyassa Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 Dont know a lot about it myself doug but AMI BIOS beep codes comes up with this...8 beeps indicates a memory error on the video adapter. Replace the video card or the memory on the video card.Looks like a video card problem :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted February 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 Back on-line. Yes it was the video card. Have swapped it for my old PCI S3 analogue card. Now is it possible to change the memory on the card, or have I got to persuade her that WE have got to raid the piggy bank?If I've got to fork out some spondula's am looking for recomendations can't afford anything expensive but it would be a shame not to fully utilise the new digital monitor I treated mesen to at Xmas!Going off for a bit while I rebuild all the periferals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dadyassa Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 Good to see you back ;) I have used ATI and NVIDIA cards and had no problems with either, I dont do any games, but do a lot of video and photo work, and I use a NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 which copes with everything I do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted February 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 All perifs in and working! This older display card is giving a very fuzzy picture to what I had before. Will have to get Herself to do some on-line shopping and grumble about the fuzziness giving her a headache! Will follow up on your driver. I dant do much in the way of games either. I do dabble with the digi photos I take. Thanks for your support. I do now have an excuse when She says "why do you keep all that old computer junk?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djohn Posted February 16, 2006 Report Share Posted February 16, 2006 Go to the crucial site doug and tap in the details for your motherboard as though you were buying memory from them. Follow it through to the end and beside the correct memory being advised for your system you'll also see recommended graphic cards. I think the one for your board will be an ATI of about 128 mb of memory and around the £48 mark. Their cards are as good as their memory is and its delivered next day.The card will arrive fully boxed as a retail ATI card with the Crucial logo on it as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted February 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2006 Thanks DJ. Price looks a bit heavy will have a ponder. Herself said "why not see if there's a computer fair this weekend". Bit concerned about buying this way as there wont be much room for any redress. However, will start building up a list of cards and drool. Daadyas' suggestion, the GeForce FX 5200) looked reasonable and had a digi output,but when I did a search the suppliers had very bad writeups.So folks please add on all your suggestions and I'll start adding to my list af pros and cons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted February 16, 2006 Report Share Posted February 16, 2006 What about ?http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?ASU-108488ASUS V9520-X/TD/128MB GF FX5200 128MB AGP DVI/TVO COMPOSITE ASUS V9520-X is the highest end product in current X Series family. Powered by NVIDIA FX5200 GPU, the V9520-X is the only graphics card that supports the latest DirectX 9 and OpenGL1.4 standards. The FX5200 GPU also supports NVIDIA CineFX engine, Digital Vibrance Control 3.0, and many other NVIDIA technologies£31.62 Inc VAT+ If you didn't need DVI - this would be a very good buy !http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?NOV-A9256Radeon 9200 Gold Edition- Retail Package 32-bit AGP 8x/4x/2x 256MB RADEON 9200 Video Card with TV Out port.£22.62 Inc VATdoug Check that your mobo does support AGP 3.0 8x ??? - before you buy - I think it may only support AGP 4x ??From the Crucial site and a bit cheaper than djohn's suggested priceCrucial RADEON 9250 128MB AGPhttp://www.crucial.com/uk/store/partspecs....LE=CTV9250128MB£30.54 inc. VATcompatible with AGP 4X (1.5V), 8X (0.8v) or Universal AGP 3.0 bus configuration (4X/8X) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted February 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2006 Mucho thanks Boris. Certainly things to drool over on those links. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted February 16, 2006 Report Share Posted February 16, 2006 Dare I suggest a quick peep on eBay? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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