No boot : 9 beeps error SOLVED
On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 00:31:01 -0400, Nick Monyatovsky I hate to break it to you, but the problem...
For all those, who experience the same problem and cannot find a proper answer among the flood of nonsense suggestions and quotations...
Contrary to so many posts that say that your motherboard had gone bad, or that your CPU is toast, or other nonsense like that...
This is what you have to do:
1) Find the battery on the motherboard that stores the CMOS settings.
In my case it was easy to see -- it's a quater-size watch-type battery. Hard to miss.
2) Remove it, and replace with a new one. The life expectancy of this battery is 2 years. Mine lasted 6 without problems, until one day I could no longer boot...
On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 16:39:19 -0400, "Mike Hollywood" You can remove them from the board (or there is a circuit floating...
3) Find the jumper on the motherboard that clears the CMOS.
The motherboard documentation will tell you where it is.
4) Clear the CMOS, using that jumper.
The procedure will obviously vary from one manufacturer to the next.In my case (TYAN), I was following the instructions from my motherboard's documentation, but it was not working, and I started to suspect that, in fact, my motherboard is a gonner.
Turns out the procedure was wrong! To reset the CMOS, I did not have to move the jumper to another position -- I had to remove it altogether. Boot the computer without the jumper. (Nothing will happen, and everything will be black). Then put the jumper into the proper position, and boot again.
So, my cousin is going to uni, and he's going to need his own pc. So I've been given...
5) When the computer boots it will display the message that your CMOS settings are incorrect, and will stop and halt almost immediately. This is expected.
Enter the BIOS and reset it to BIOS defaults.
In AMI BIOS it can be done blindly (ie, if VGA is not working, and nothing is displayed, by pressing F5 (Setup Defaults) soon after entering the BIOS. Here is the procedure if you have to work blindly as I had since my AGP card would not be recognized; by default, the BIOS would direct a video signal to the PCI card, which I did not have. A special setting must be done in the BIOS to tell it that my primary display is AGP.
Power up DEL to enter BIOS (some MB use F1, I've even seen F2) F5 to "Load Setup Defaults" ENTER to confirm F10 to "Save and Exit" ENTER to confirm
After this your computer should come back.
Good luck, -- Nick