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Chapter 5 Frequently Asked Questions
5-1 Boot
Issues
AWARD BIOS Beep Codes
In case of errors the AWARD BIOS will send beeps to the system speaker. Although the
spoken error messages replace the beep codes, it may still be convenient to know what the
beep codes mean.
Beeps
Meaning
No beep at all
This means your motherboard is dead, either due to a defective or
underrated power supply, poorly seated CPU or RAM, or a
Dead-On-Arrival (DOA) board.
One beep
The board is working fine.
Long-short-short
This means no video card detected (or a poorly seated video card)
Repeated single tone This is a memory problem (could be the DIMM, the memory
controller or the internal CPU cache memory).
two-tone siren
Generally caused by overheating or out of specification voltages.
Rapid beeps
this means a key is stuck on your keyboard, it is not properly
plugged in, or the keyboard is incompatible in some way
The AWARD BIOS offers no other codes, any other error messages are displayed on the
screen. (As explained above)
Below you will find a list of other possible causes of boot problems. Please go through
them one by one to find the source of your boot problem if the methods described above
did not help you.
AGP Speed setting
If AGPx4 is enabled in the BIOS (Advanced Chipset Features page) and you do not use
AGP card, or your AGP graphics card that doesn't support 4x mode? disable it in those
cases
USB devices
The board may fail to start the memory check during the boot sequence, this may be related
to a USB device (such as a scanner) attached to the system. Try disconnecting all USB
devices from the system.
