shiver 0 Posted August 18, 2003 Share Posted August 18, 2003 A friend came over and built my pc on Sat. It was an all day affair. Finally had it up and running with all the hardware installed and the os installed. He then downloaded some bench marking software. Sisoft sandra and future mark 3d. The score on sandra was in the ball park compared to similar systems. score = 5765 I ran the burn in on sandra over night. This afternoon I stopped it after 14 hrs. I clicked around in xp checking out the menus and stuff.. my 1st time seeing xp. I shut down the pc. I set up a kvm. Started my old computer and the kvm worked fine. When I started the new pc I could hear a high pitched tone, just a straight tone non-stop. The monitor is flashing a No Signal screen. Shut down both pcs. Unhook the kvm and run the monitor directly to the new pc. Start it up and the same thing. A loud straight high pitched tone. I shut down again. Removed the side panel and started the new pc again. Same tone. All fans working properly. Even the fan on the vid card is working. Shut down the new pc. Pulled out the video card and stuck it in my old pc. The old pc booted fine. SO it's not video card. Even started the new pc w/ no video card. Same loud sound. Switched the twinx modules, took them out of the black slots and put them into the blue. Still the same loud high pitched tone. I'm stumped. I'll try calling Asus to see if they can give me some help. Anyone got any ideas ? Just a reminder: p4 3.2 ghz asus p4c800 mobo ati all in wonder 9800 1 gb of corsair twinx 3700 467 mhz 1 80 gb western digital to boot and run main apps from. 2 80 gb western digital set up in a raid0 stripe array. highpoint rocket raid 404 raid controller. pwr supply = antec true blue 480. case= thermaltake xaser III CPU heat sink/fan= thermaltake spark 7. sony dru - 510a dvd -r/+r -rw/+rw cdrw Sony floppy drive. LG electronics cdrw I sent something to asus letting them know, maybe they'll know something. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Specter 0 Posted August 18, 2003 Share Posted August 18, 2003 Moving to proper forum. It will get the proper attention here. Typically, that high pitched sound would mean that the monitor has gone out. Is the sound coming from the PC or the monitor? The only things in the PC that can cause that sound are fans and Hard drives. There are no other moving parts. The sound you describe though sounds like the monitor took a dump on ya. Have you checked it? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shiver 0 Posted August 18, 2003 Author Share Posted August 18, 2003 It's the new pc, monitor works fine with the old computer. Would the failure of a hard drive cause me to not get a signal on the monitor? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Specter 0 Posted August 18, 2003 Share Posted August 18, 2003 No, it wouldnt. It would cause you to get a drive not found error, but not a signal loss. And if the video card went out, it could have taken your monitor, depending on how it failed. If you put the card back in your new PC and you fire it up and hear that noise, Im betting your monitor is gone. Have you tried the monitor on the other PC? If you have and it works, then you have another problem. If it doesnt, the monitor is hosed. But when an HDD goes, your PC will still POST and you will get signal to the monitor, The only things that will cause a failed signal to the monitor are RAM, which makes no noise, and video card, which also makes no noise. OF a bad mobo, which also makes no noise. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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