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Gigabyte H55M-USB3 perfectly working but I hear no BEEP at startup POST. Why?

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I connected to my perfectly working mobo H55M-USB3 a speaker to hear the correct beep of regular POST. But no beeps come from the speaker.
I'm sure absolutely sure that my speaker works (I connected it to other mobos to hear them at POSt and understand if they had problems) and that I connected the buzzer in the right way (on the 4-pin "speaker" space in "front panel" pins on the motherboard).
Maybe I have to enable in some way the beeps? What could be the problem?
It's only a curiosity for me  (My mobo works and the system is fully working).

Thx.

Frupoli

Dark Mantis

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Try turning the speaker connections around.
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Try turning the speaker connections around.

Thx for your answer.. but... the first thing I thought was that I just reverted the connector and tried in both ways. Nothing, and I tried with two different (and working) buzzers.
Could it be possible that some bios settings does not provide initial beep? (for example "quick post", or similar).
I just turned my bios to default settings.

It seems impossible to me. Just every mobo I tried over the years was beeping!!  ;)

Any other ideas?   ???

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If the BIOS is posting successfully then it should emit a single beep. Obviously as long as you have no other problems then it would appear that there is nothing to worry about. However I wouldn't be happy knowing that it should beep but didn't. You could always insert a "problem" onto the board and see what happens eg remove the graphics card and see if it beeps when you try to POST.
« Last Edit: July 25, 2010, 09:32:20 am by Dark Mantis »
Gigabyte X58A-UD7
i7 920
Dominators 1600 x6 12GB
6970 2GB
HX850
256GB SSD, Sam 1TB, WDB320GB
Blu-Ray
HAF 932

Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3
i7 3770K
Vengeance 1600 16GB
6950 2GB
HCP1200W
Revo Drive x2, 1.5TB WDB RAID0
16x DLRW
StrikeX S7
Full water cooling
3 x 27" Iiy

...mhhh. In effect I'm happy, no problems here, but I really miss my initial "single BEEP"

You could always insert a "problem" onto the board and see what happens

I will try right now. As I use integrated vga, I will try with removing RAM.  ;)

I will try right now. As I use integrated vga, I will try with removing RAM.  ;)

I tried removing my RAM, and beeper worked! Abnormal POST was reported.

So I tried again to better understand. In the end => PROBLEM SOLVED
I'm 99% sure it's due to "QUICK POST" activated (you  can choose this options in BIOS).
If you choose QUICK POST => ENABLED, your motherboard does not beep to say OK if there is no problem.
If you choose QUICK POST => DISABLED, your mobo will beep even to say "everything it's ok".

Thank you very much for your help in this matter.  ;)

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You're welcome, I am happy that we managed to get to the solution so easily. If only they were all this straightforward ;D
Gigabyte X58A-UD7
i7 920
Dominators 1600 x6 12GB
6970 2GB
HX850
256GB SSD, Sam 1TB, WDB320GB
Blu-Ray
HAF 932

Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3
i7 3770K
Vengeance 1600 16GB
6950 2GB
HCP1200W
Revo Drive x2, 1.5TB WDB RAID0
16x DLRW
StrikeX S7
Full water cooling
3 x 27" Iiy