4 long beeps and shutdown

Hi all.....

Each time I start my computer, I've four long beep... and it shutdown
immediatly.

May you help me ?

My computer have : MotherBoard Abit (KT7A), Processor AMD Athlon XP 1700+,
256 Mo SDRAM.

*Thanks to ALL in advance who reply.*
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Pum.s (Reunion Island)

Pum.s wrote:
> Hi all.....
>
> Each time I start my computer, I've four long beep... and it shutdown
> immediatly.
>
> May you help me ?
>
> My computer have : MotherBoard Abit (KT7A), Processor AMD Athlon XP 1700+,
> 256 Mo SDRAM.
>
> *Thanks to ALL in advance who reply.*
> -------------------
> Pum.s (Reunion Island)
>
>

See bios beeps below. Are you overheating? Is your CPU fan connected
to the proper header or turned off in the bios?

Enkidu


__________________________________________________ _______________
AWARD BIOS Beep Sound Message
1 short (Beep) System booting is normally.
2 short (Beep) CMOS setting error
1 long - 1 short (Beep) DRAM ERROR
1 long - 2 short (Beep) Display card or monitor connected error
1 long - 3 short (Beep) Keyboard Error
1 long - 9 short (Beep) ROM Error
Long (Beep) continuous DRAM hasn't inset correctly.
Short (Beep) continuous POWER supply has problem.

Pum.s wrote:
> I don't understand my computer...

Neither do we

> I've take off the battery during two hours and next the computer have an
> another problem :

Use the Clear_CMOS jumper also.

> The computer doesn't start, it dont beep. I try to start the cumputer twice
> or three times and it run.
> But Window and linux doesn't start.Linux hang when it start eth0.
> I take off the ethernet card and now the computer start well.
> I try to replace the ethernet card with another but : the PC doesn't start
> again.

Some of the PCI-slots share an interrupt-line.
Try swapping PCI-cards around.
Disable everything in bios that you don't use (USB?, seriel? and
parallel? ports)