P67 Extreme6 Beeping on Startup/Temp Alert

Hello guys,

Really, 30 beeps? That is not normal at all. The PC then boots fine, right?

Have you ever tried clearing the BIOS/CMOS to stop the beeping?

Your board has a Dr. Debug POST code display. You should watch that display when you start the PC, and try to write down what code you see when the beeps occur. I would hope it would stay on one code, but it might not. If the codes keep changing during the beeping, does one code seem to be displayed longer than the others?

The source of the beeping is another question. Your board has a header/connector for the small beep code speaker. The speaker is not built into the board, it must be connected by the owner. That connector is in the lower right corner of the board, item 26 in this picture:



If there is the beep speaker connected to this connector, you can simply remove the speaker to solve the noise problem of the beeps. If you do not have a beep speaker connected to that connector, something else is beeping. Simply removing the beep speaker does not identify the real cause of the beeping, of course.

A few video cards can beep, what video card are you using?

The CPU temperature of 122F/50C is well below the maximum of a Sandy or Ivy Bridge CPU. I did not see anything in the manual about a BIOS setting that would cause beeps, although BIOS updates can change options and the manuals are rarely updated. If your CPU was over heating, the PC would simply shut off.

We have zero information about your PC besides the mother board. Please list your BIOS version, CPU, memory type including full manufacture and model number, and which memory slots are being used. Also the PSU, video card(s), drives, and any other major hardware that you use.

Edited by Devikn - 16 Dec 2015 at 3:31am

wardog wrote: Devikn wrote: I am unable to move my Video Card since the HDs would be on the way if i tried any of the other slots, being the slot by Dr Debug's display the only one available for it. Knowing what is displayed on Dr Debug would be invaluable to you in regards to us helping. Can you disconnect/remove a HDD or two foir this? You don't need to boot into the OS, just press DELETE and get into the BIOS. Enough to see what's displayed? < id="kpm_plugin" ="application/x-KPMPlugin">

Devikn wrote: wardog wrote: Devikn wrote: I am unable to move my Video Card since the HDs would be on the way if i tried any of the other slots, being the slot by Dr Debug's display the only one available for it. Knowing what is displayed on Dr Debug would be invaluable to you in regards to us helping. Can you disconnect/remove a HDD or two foir this? You don't need to boot into the OS, just press DELETE and get into the BIOS. Enough to see what's displayed? < id="kpm_plugin" ="application/x-KPMPlugin"> Sorry for the late reply, I had some trouble after re-positioning the video card, but I was able to read Dr Debug's display. The sequence of codes are: 08-15-20-55-36-4F-88-72-9A-96-62-99-64-92-A2-A3 I had to record the display in order to read that sequence, some numbers like 08-15-88-72-9A and  92 flashed way too quickly, so Im not quite sure if they are correct.  The ones staying on the display for the longest (1 or more secs) were: 4F-96-62-99-64-A2 and A3, being 64 the longest. I can upload a video with Dr Debug's display and the beeping it makes when I turn the computer on if needed. ****** I had to update my BIOS when I bought a new video card in order to use it, but i dont remember what version it was before. Here we go: BIOS = American Megatrends Inc. P2.10 Date: 05/08/2012 Ver: 04.06.05 / SMBIOS 2.7 CPU = Intel Core i5 2400 CPU @ 3.10GHz (4 CPUs) ~ 3101 MHz RAM = 2x GEIL Enhance CORSA Single Channel 4GB(8GB Total) CL9-99 DDR3-1333MHz 1.5V on Slots #1 and #3 PSU = OCZ StealthXStream2 - 700W Video Card = GIGABYTE AMD Radeon R9 270x 2GB /Driver Version: 15.300 Model WDDM 1.1 DirectX 11 HDs = 2x 500GB Seagate Barracuda ST3500630AS 7200.10 3.5" Im using a Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bits version OS Thats basically everything. Let me know if you need any more info, such as a DXDiag or MSInfo file.  Thanks! ****** Thanks for now.

I included the system specs from an earlier post in this post for reference.

As we know, the PC boots into Windows, so POST does not stop the start up process with a fatal error. Looking at the sequence of POST codes (thanks for that, a lot of work) we see an A3 at the end, the typical storage drive initialization being done, and POST is complete.

As you recall, during the sequence of codes you recorded, when does the 30 beeps begin? Approximately of course, the best you can recall. If it is before or after the display of codes, please say so.

IF we assume the longest displayed code MIGHT be the problem, that being 64, that is the wonderfully ambiguous chipset initialization error. The generic cure for that is clear the CMOS/BIOS, which I suggested in general earlier. No video of the POST codes is necessary, since you are not getting a fatal error during POST, which stops with the code of the process being run.

Your reply to my question about clearing the BIOS/CMOS (you don't know how to do that) means the only time anything like that happened is when you did any BIOS updates.

Any time you add or change major hardware, like a CPU, memory (or just changing the memory slots used), video card, or even change the connection of drives in the SATA ports, you really should clear the BIOS. Otherwise data in the BIOS becomes confused and can cause problems.

The Clear CMOS jumper is next to the battery on the board, item 32 in the picture from your manual I posted. There is also a clrCMOS button on the board's IO panel. Before using either, the PC is shutdown, the PSU switch is turned off, and the AC power cord is unplugged either from the PSU or the AC outlet.

Use the clrCMOS button, very easy to do. After doing what I described above, press and hold the clrCMOS button for several seconds. You can do that several times, or hold the button down longer. The other method is to open the PC case, move the jumper on the clear CMOS header from pins 1 and 2, to pins 2 and 3, and leave it there for at least a minute. Move the jumper back to pins 1 and 2 to complete the process.

Don't forget that a BIOS/CMOS clear sets ALL the BIOS options back to their default values. If you have set and need certain not default BIOS settings, you must set those again in the BIOS.

Given the new system spec information, I have a few comments about that.

You are using BIOS version 2.10, which is the Ivy Bridge processor compatibility update version. That adds Ivy Bridge CPU compatibility to a Sandy Bridge chipset board. You are using a Sandy Bridge processor, an i5-2400. That is fine to do as long as this update is done correctly. That includes updating the Intel IME software/driver to Intel Management Engine driver ver:8.0.2.141, in the Windows 7 download area.

Since the board beeped before this update, it could not cause the problem. I don't understand why this BIOS update was needed for your video card. Nothing in the description includes anything about video card compatibility updates.

You said your video card covered the Dr Debug display, which means you have it in the PCIE4 slot. Must be a long card that hit the SATA ports if used in the PCIE2 slot? That still seems strange to me, given the SATA ports layout. Otherwise it is a standard two slot high card.

The PCIE4 slot is an x8 electrical slot, so your card is running at PCIe 2.0 x8. Only the PCIE2 slot is x16 electrically.

The Geil memory listed in your board's memory compatibility list was not the same as the Geil Corsa memory you have. That memory may be semi-compatible with your system.