Thx for that, with the aid of that link you gave me I've managed to narrow
the problem down to either the videocard or memory (which is what the beeping
is telling me) I'll do some investigating, but while I do that why would this
problem only surface in Vista and not XP?

"Peter" wrote:

Something in your setup isn't coping with either the load or the temperature
generated by it.
See this chart:
http://acronymsonline.com/lists/beep_chart.asp

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Peter
Toronto, Canada
XP Pro SP2 x 2 + Vista Beta
P4 D865GBFL HT @ 3.0ghz 2.0gb DDR 450gb HD
ATI Radeon 9550 Graphics
Creative Soundblaster Audigy 4 Audio

"ChrisN" wrote in message
news
Hi, I'm not sure if this is the correct place to ask this, but here
goes...I
have been running Vista Beta 2 with no problems until recently I upgraded
my
motherboard (From a Gigabyte GA-K8U S754 to an Asus K8N nForce 3 250 S754)
so
everytime I run Vista Beta 2 the motherboard constantly "beeps" (a
constant
"beep beep beep etc"), the beeping starts at the boot loading screen and
stops when I shutdown Vista, however, after downloading the latest updates
for Beta 2 the problem stoped. BUT I have recently upgraded to Vista RC-1
and
the beeping has returned!!

I would like to note my machine is currenty dual-booted with Vista RC-1
and
XP Home Edition SP2 (and the problem is not present in XP) I've tried
looking
up what the beeping means in the m/b manual and the Asus homepage with
little
luck, I have also tried updating the m/b chipset drivers in Vista, but
Asus
supply no Vista support at all and Nvidia only have Vista drivers for the
Network Controller and onboard Audio for the nForce 3 chipset, I haven't
tried updating the BIOS yet (but I don't really want to if I can help it
as I
don't like messing with my BIOS as it is working fine, minus this problem)
I
was woundering if other people have this problem? or know of what I can
try
todo next? or even a possible solution? thanks in advance for any helpful
information.