Computer Start Up Error, Please Help

[JBoDEAN 0]

Seems like since I followed TimmyC's registry tweak for my geforce, anytime I turn off my computer now, and start it back up, I get One long beep, and 3 or 4 short beeps (Abit BE6 mb, Geforce 2 mx prophet video card). No idea why. Both manuals dont have any info on this. I am wondering, if disabling any of these is causing the problem, because I disabled these in the bios:

Video BIOS cacheable

Video BIOS shadow

VGA Palette Snoop

PCI Palette Snoop

C8xxxx-CBxxxx Shadow

 

Any ideas? I have a 300 W power supply, and if i RESTART the computer, this doesn't happen. But i turn off my computer at night, and in the morning, i experience this. I have a Sony E400 monitor, and it says Monitor is in Power Save mode when I start up, and after I hear the beeps =(

[clutch 1]

Set them back the way they were, and then change them one at a time. However, those changes will probably not give you much of a performance change anyway. Now, as far as why you don't hear the beeping at restart; this is because on a warm boot (restart) your system skips parts of the POST (Power On Self Test) process, and thus isn't having issues with these settings. One (or more) of those changes is/are upsetting the video card and/or motherboard. I would just set them back the way they were and not worry about it.

 

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Regards,

 

clutch

[JBoDEAN 0]

Thanks. You have heard of issues with these settings causing these problems?

[JBoDEAN 0]

BTW- I am not sure if I will be able to get into the bios. I will try tonight, but as far as these two past mornings, It bootsup, screen is black / in standby mode....I wonder if Delete will even bring the bios up.

 

If it doesn't what do you suggest?

[clutch 1]

Well, worse comes to worse you could just reset the BIOS. There may be a jumper to reset it, or you could just take out the battery for a minute or so.

 

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Regards,

 

clutch

[JBoDEAN 0]

What is the possibility if I dont see a display when booting up the computer, that hitting delete will get me into the bios?

 

Also, any idea which one of those options I disabled coudl be causing the problem? I will reset them all back to enabled, but wondering if you ever experienced / or seen this before.

[clutch 1]

I would imagine that you could get in, if that was the key that let you in to begin with. I would just hit it repeatedly during initial boot.

 

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Regards,

 

clutch

[JBoDEAN 0]

Thanks for the help clutch. Hoping for success after work today with fixing this. I wonder if this issue is causing my winme to freeze on occasion. I wonder which one of these settings is causing the hangup. Never heard of this before.