My computer has gone up the duff.

I think its hard drive related but as its not posting and I dont have a spare computer around to test, ive no idea.

Motherboard: ABIT NF7-S V2

Error Code: 2 Long beeps, followed by a pause, and a continuous hi-lo tone siren.

WTF does that mean?

Preferable to actually find out the problem before I go rooting around in the case as well the case is in an arsey place to get to, and I just cant be arsed to deal with the mess at the moment for diagnostics, prefer to have an indication of whats wrong first.

Fully unplug the drive you think is causing the problem, it should then boot up  through the bios to the point where it tries to load windaz. To be honest you can unplug everything except mouse, video card, memory and PSU and try it like that.

If it is the HD it might just be a loose cable, try pushing the ends *firmly* into the motherboard and drives

Also check the power cables are plugged firmly into the mobo and drives.

Cannot find much on award

QuoteAWARD BIOS ERROR BEEP CODES

There are 2 main beep codes for the Award BIOS:

    * one long beep and two short beeps - Video error (reseat or replace video card)
    * two short beeps - Non-Fatal Error (reseat RAM, check other components)

http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?p=AWARD+BIOS+ERROR+BEEP+CODES&fr=FP-tab-web-t340&ei=UTF-8&meta=vc%3D

TOO MUCH!!!

Quote from: Serioushttp://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?p=AWARD+BIOS+ERROR+BEEP+CODES&fr=FP-tab-web-t340&ei=UTF-8&meta=vc%3D

TOO MUCH!!!

Well award does not have any standard really it is up to the MB manufactor
so to much which means that I did not find much

They use text messages mostly LoL It is either graphic card memory or cpu
i think HDD failure usually do not stop posting so it should give text message.

Shockingly I just had one do this tonight while trying to copy over the contents of a friends old HD to a newer one and it wouldnt post dispite the fact that all I did was PUSH THE IDE CONNECTORS ONTO THE MOBO AND DRIVE!! Cant remember the beep pattern though  

Was an older computer though, 500Mhz AMD from Compaq. Worth trying the actions I suggested earlier though

Compaq sais it all   often need special jmp settings

but I suppouse a HDD cable not properly set might cause strange problems.

Right... well 5 and a half hours of WTF!?

Its a dead drive, or rather one that only spins up every now and again, and then the motor stops spinning. Thankfully its not an important one... but it is the one to which I was backing up things to.

Doh. Time to start backing up to a decent drive or maybe just burning a copy.