No Video on Boot with Bios Beeps

My Build-

Motherboard: ASRock M3 A770DE
Processor: Phenom II X4 810 Deneb 2.6GHz
Memory: Mushkin Enhanced Silverline 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333
Video Card: ATI Radeon 2900XT w/ 1GB DDR3(?) RAM - I know it's old:-o

I just built a (mostly new) computer. I am getting BIOS Beeps when the video card is attached 2 short beeps followed by 8 short beeps. I've done some research and it seems that the 2 beeps indicate a memory parity error. The video card is having an error too (indicated by the 8 short beeps)

The strange thing is that it only Beeps when the card is in the motherboard's primary PCIe 2.0 x16 slot. If i Plug it into the the other PCIe slot I get no beeps other than the single standard beep. But in no instance do I get video output. My monitor indicates that no signal is being received.

 

Sounds like your video card is shot. It sounds like a memory error of the video card.

Don't plug a PCI Express into a PCI slot. You could damage your motherboard because it isn't designed for that.

Have another PC to test the video card?

 

Pull the RAM and VC, use a Q Tip and some cleaning alcohol and rub the copper contact surfaces and allow to dry.

Try using the VC and a single RAM module in DIMM_1. See if that works (swap the RAM modules into the same slot).

 

I came to the same conclusion video card memory error. Already tried VC and RAM as described, still no dice. Time to Upgrade!

P.S. I just wanted to let you know that I only plugged the video into only the correct PCIe slots. My motherboard has two for video cards and as part of my troubleshooting process, I plugged it into the different slots.