Thread: AMI BIOS Beep Codes

The AMI BIOS is one of the most popular in the K world today, and fortunately is quite consistent in performance, across its many different versions.

1. One beep is good! Everyti,illg is OK, if you see things on the screen. If you don't see any thing, Icheck your monitor and video card first. Is everything connected? If they seem fine, your motherboard has some bad chips on it. First reset the SIMMs and reboot. If it still shows the same thing, one of the memory chips on the motherboard is bad, and you most likely need to get another motherboard since these chips are soldered on.

2. Your computer has memory problems. First, check video. If video is working, you'll see an error message, If not, you have a parity error in your first 64K of memory. Check 'four SIMMs. Reset them and reboot. If this doesn't do it, the memory chips may be bad. You can try switching the first and second banks memory chips. First banks are the memory banks in which your CPU finds its first 64K of base memory, You'll need to consult your manual to see which bank is first. If all of your memory tests are good, you probably need to buy another motherboard.



3. Same as 2 beeps; follow diagnosis above

4. Same as 2 beeps; follow diagnosis above. Your problem could also be a bad timer.

5. Your motherboard is complaining. Try reseating the memory and rebooting. If that doesn't help, you should consider another motherboard. You could probably get away with just replacing the CPU, but that's not too cost-effective.

6. The chip on your motherboard that controls your keyboard isn't working. First, try another keyboard. If that doesn't help, reseat the chip that controls the keyboard, if it isn't soldered in. If it still beeps, replace the chip if possible. Replace the motherboard if the chip is soldered in.