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Title: Gigabyte H55M-USB3 perfectly working but I hear no BEEP at startup POST. Why?
Post by: frupoli on July 23, 2010, 12:23:10 am

As in subject.
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

Title: Re: Gigabyte H55M-USB3 perfectly working but I hear no BEEP at startup POST. Why?
Post by: Dark Mantis on July 23, 2010, 07:50:14 am

Try turning the speaker connections around.

Title: Re: Gigabyte H55M-USB3 perfectly working but I hear no BEEP at startup POST. Why?
Post by: frupoli on July 23, 2010, 08:46:59 am

Quote from: Dark Mantis on July 23, 2010, 07:50:14 am

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!!  ;)

Title: Re: Gigabyte H55M-USB3 perfectly working but I hear no BEEP at startup POST. Why?
Post by: frupoli on July 25, 2010, 09:13:44 am

Any other ideas?   ???

Title: Re: Gigabyte H55M-USB3 perfectly working but I hear no BEEP at startup POST. Why?
Post by: Dark Mantis on July 25, 2010, 09:30:16 am

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.

Title: Re: Gigabyte H55M-USB3 perfectly working but I hear no BEEP at startup POST. Why?
Post by: frupoli on July 25, 2010, 09:46:05 am

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

Quote from: Dark Mantis on July 25, 2010, 09:30:16 am

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.  ;)

Title: Re: Gigabyte H55M-USB3 perfectly working but I hear no BEEP at startup POST. Why?
Post by: frupoli on July 25, 2010, 03:04:36 pm

Quote from: frupoli on July 25, 2010, 09:46:05 am

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.  ;)

Title: Re: Gigabyte H55M-USB3 perfectly working but I hear no BEEP at startup POST. Why?
Post by: Dark Mantis on July 25, 2010, 03:13:16 pm

You're welcome, I am happy that we managed to get to the solution so easily. If only they were all this straightforward ;D

Title: Re: Gigabyte H55M-USB3 perfectly working but I hear no BEEP at startup POST. Why?
Post by: frupoli on July 25, 2010, 03:34:41 pm

 ;)