Nvidia 650i Ultra Motherboard (Long Beeps)

I'm making this posting because I found very little data on the problem of getting Long Beeps upon reboot on my computer, which has an Nvidia 650i Ultra motherboard.

After much web searching, I was very disappointed that there was no data available regarding beep-codes for the Nvidia 650i Ultra motherboard. There were a few mentions about re-seating memory cards and video card, and with that not working, the mother board may be dead.

So, I re-seated by memory and video cards, but I still got the long beep.

I was finally resigned to getting a new mother board, when I decided to test for a failure in the power supply, by removing some of the memory, to lower power consumption. After removing 2 of the 4 memory chips, I found that the system was able to boot up. This also lead me to believe that the problem could also be a memory issue, so I swapped memory around, (after fully switch off the computer, don't rely on the soft switch on the front) and I was able to isolate the faulty memory card.

So, that was cool. Rather than having to find a new mother board or replacing the power supply, all I had to do was buy a new 2gig memory card. The bottom line is, that long beeps can also be caused by a bad memory card (on Nvidia 650i Ultra motherboards). Come to think of it, I did have several brown outs about 1 week earlier that took my computers down several times (my UPS needed a new battery).

-Later...