melkin Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 Hey guys. We have an old strand 520i that's won't start up. When I power it up the 2 LCD screens light up and fans etc but it never actually starts up the software. What is foes do is make a series of beeps, which I'm guessing will tell me more info but I can't find anywhere telling me what the beeps mean- it's like this - Beep, (pause) beep beep beep, (pause) beep beep beep, (pause) beep. If that makes sense.. Or 1, 123, 123, 1.. Any ideas anyone? Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alistermorton Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 Have you checked the internal battery. If that dies, strand consoles can fail to start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musht Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 Is the 520 not an AT mobo at heart? Would check for wobbly RAM to start with, but beeps are probably BIOS Post diagnostics, few dialects:http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alistermorton Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 According to that site, if it's a phoenix bios on the mobo that means "autosize DRAM" - I've seen PCs need to auto size their memory when the mobo has forgotten how much memory it has, which can happen because the battery which powers the NVRAM has died. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soakes94 Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 Sorry to jump onto this but today out strand 520i also failed to start-up. The LCD's on the desk lit up but nothing was displayed, there was no response from the rest of the desk and the LCD monitors weren’t getting any signal. I got the error beep code of a long beep then 2 short beeps. Some googling has told me this is likely to be the graphics chip. Can anyone confirm this and if it is the graphics chip can it be replaced? I'm guessing not as it’s an onboard chip and not a graphics card! But I could be wrong! Stephen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melkin Posted May 20, 2014 Author Share Posted May 20, 2014 Well I have it working again now thank god. I unclipped the ram and plugged it back in and changed the internal cr 2032 battery on the central motherboard and hey presto it fired up and is working fine now. Thanks for all the relies though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kazeja Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 Sorry to jump onto this but today out strand 520i also failed to start-up. The LCD's on the desk lit up but nothing was displayed, there was no response from the rest of the desk and the LCD monitors weren’t getting any signal. I got the error beep code of a long beep then 2 short beeps. Some googling has told me this is likely to be the graphics chip. Can anyone confirm this and if it is the graphics chip can it be replaced? I'm guessing not as it’s an onboard chip and not a graphics card! But I could be wrong! Stephen Check the card that slots into the ISA connector on the mobo. K Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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