Bought a CPU, got a weird beeping error

[whuh?]

so I bought a cpu on ebay where Im getting it and my parents are getting mine currently. I test it on my machine(cause it isnt as hard as to change) and when I turn my pc on it makes a beeping sound like BEREEREREREREEEERERERERERERER and nothing happens.

I bought a xp 3200+

Did I get fucked over? What should I try?

[Apathy]

so I bought a cpu on ebay where Im getting it and my parents are getting mine currently. I test it on my machine(cause it isnt as hard as to change) and when I turn my pc on it makes a beeping sound like BEREEREREREREEEERERERERERERER and nothing happens.

I bought a xp 3200+

Did I get fucked over? What should I try?

Generally speaking, the motherboard tones you receive, are meant to indicate the specific problem. I recommend either checking your mobo manufacturers site for tone definitions or giving them a call and describing the sound.

My first guesses, however, is either your mobo doesn't support the cpu, or you got fucked.

[whuh?]

well I had a 2800 before and now its a 3200. The fact that it boots up was making me think about it(since im trapped at uni for a few more hours). Ima try resetting the bios settings as mabye its fucking with the fsb(as it currently only went up to 333 as processor limitation but now I have 400 on this one).

But the beep wasnt like a code, it was just a screech. That means im on my own.

[spartan]

Most BIOS beep codes I've heard are pretty damn annoying. What you might think to be a malfunctioning screech could mean something. Find the manual for the mobo or get the PDF onlien and figure out if it actually means something. Unsupported CPU or the frequencies are wrong with the cpu/ram somewhere in there.

[Apathy]

FSB Settings are all well and good, but from my experience they will not affect whether or not your pc boots (unless the cpu is just balls-to-the-wall NOT compatible with the mobo). I can restart my PC right now, and set the bios settings for fsb so my cpu runs at a minimum speed of an amd 2100+ with the only ill-affect being a reduction in fsb/clock speed.

[Noirceur]

You're brave to try and get a cpu on ebay.

[Afro Joe]

Send the wierd beeping error back and tell them to send the CPU.

[Apathy]

Send the wierd beeping error back and tell them to send the CPU.

Lollies.

[Enforcer]

Send the wierd beeping error back and tell them to send the CPU.

Ahaha lols-to-the-walls.





Seriously, though, try to see if there's any damage to the cpu core, maybe the cpu itself is fucked.

[whuh?]

well theres good and bad news:

good news is the guy also suggested that bios thingy and if it didnt work after that I can send it back to get another one :)

Bad news: the bios reset idea now fucked over my regular things. I have two harddrives, my primary is a sata and my secondary is a ide.

Now when it boots up it freezes when detecting ides. I disable it making it as the boot and make raid as the boot, it still freezes at ide drives detection in the bios. So I unplug the drive and now it boots up to the windows f8 screen. I choose reboot as normal. Just before it gets to the screen where it has that blue bar scrolling sideways as its loading, the screen turns completely dark grey and freezes. I tried safemode, it locks up while loading that too but not with a grey screen(just where the files are being listed when loading).

This is a shitfest I really didnt need today. Anyone got any ideas?

[Enforcer]

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Fuck.

Go into the bios and change the boot order to have HD's first, then go into your HD configuration and choose the drive with XP on it as the first in the list. If that doesn't work, just connect the one drive with XP and gradually enable the others.

[spartan]

Eh, I've had that before. Solved it by going through some of the IDE options in the BIOS menu and switching them from compatible to preformance... pretty much seeing what didn't work and then trying something else until I had some luck and then kept on that path.

"Guess and check" doesn't sound like a lot but it's a surefire way to test the waters.

[Apathy]

Or, his jumper settings were improperly set on his HDD's.

So yea, check the jumpers, either you need to set your os drive as primary and your secondary as slave, or you can set both to cable-select and do it that way.

[whuh?]

I cant do that. First of all theres no settings to select the specific sata drive. I can have either sata enabled or disabled. My boot is on my sata drive and that just loads up to a grey screen like I said before. If I have my ide drive plugged in either with the sata drive or without, it Locks up BEFORE I can get into the bios settings. That means if I unplug the ide drive and boot up with my sata, I cant adjust any ide settings because it has to detect the drive first. The boot order doesnt do anything because theres no ide drives it detects.

Theres only a jumper setting for the sata and thats to enable or disable. Ive done both and it locks up when booting with an ide drive plugged in.

I just want to get my sata drive to work. When it has the f8 screen saying there was an error I can either go safemode, last known good settings, or normal, and when it tries to load it goes to a grey screen.

[Enforcer]

Maybe it's a sign to just toss the damn thing and buy a new one :p

[StandingCow]

Could be any number of things... I suggest you take it apart and put it back together making sure each part is firmly in place.

Could be the CPU is fried.. RAM half in.. Graphics card or sound card half in its slot...

[whuh?]

Ive been thinking about this and Ima switch videocards. I tried the default sound card(integrated), some other ram, etc.

Ima be real pissed if this videocard somehow kept me off the internets(from my pc anyways) for 3 days.

[Vatek]

That screech sounds like a temperature warning to me.

Describe exactly how you installed the new CPU. If the heatsink isn't seated properly or there's no thermal paste/tape/pad between the heatsink and the CPU, it will overheat in a matter of seconds.

[whuh?]

well I made sure there was thermal paste inbetween and that didnt fix it at all. Anyways, I gots it back running. But my ide drive and my cdrom are dead for whatever reason at the moment. At least I can play navyfield now and bitch about the bugs that they havent fixed yet.

[siddy]

maybe you said this already, but i've not read the enire thing.

usually, if you pop in a compatable CPU, but it doesn't boot up, that means you should upgrade your bios.

do that FIRST before anything else.

[whuh?]

Already have the latest bios in the mobo along with the jumpers all set to accept it.:)

[whuh?]

so finally I got it back and it works great. :D

You know what the catch was? It came by US then Canada postal service INSTEAD of UPS. What a coincidence.