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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with AMD processors => Topic started by: coolguy on December 16, 2012, 11:06:15 pm

Title: GA-M56S-S3 Bios Error
Post by: coolguy on December 16, 2012, 11:06:15 pm

Hola compadres

When booting my system I get the following Bios erros:

1 short, 1 long Beep

Now I get the same error when I deliberately stop the CPU fan so the errorcode seems to be solved.

Question: How do I determine the source of this error?

Suspects are: PSU, CPU, Mainboard, Fan.
Already bought new RAM for a possible upgrade and a new PSU so i am wondering if it is really worth finding out but still curiosity gets the better of me.

Thanks for the help

R

Title: Re: GA-M56S-S3 Bios Error
Post by: Ripshod on December 16, 2012, 11:53:10 pm

1 short and 1 long tells me 'motherboard'.
What processor are you using? Anything more than an Athlon 64 puts a lot of strain on the VRMs. So much so that I blew mine when upgrading to a PhenomII 955

Title: Re: GA-M56S-S3 Bios Error
Post by: coolguy on December 17, 2012, 06:40:35 pm

Athlon II Dualcore 4800+ so well within Limits according to the datasheet.

Thanks for the answer but it is a bit confusing. Why does the comp run smooth after that errorcode? It does start and run after all.
Today my coldstart did NOT produce this beep pattern just the POST OK short beep.
Never get this error during warmstart or reboot.

Mysterious.....