1 long beep followed by 2 quick beeps

[jinjishu]

This happened to me while I was resetting the cmos by unplugging the battery for 5 mins. I even tried the 3pin cmos reset thing, I found the cmos reset words underneath the orange sata plugin, but I didn't see a 3 pin thing anywhere.

Anyway to fix the 3 beeps, I plugged in an old defective video card I had laying around and it worked long enough for me to go into bios menu and reset to default. I than took out the old video card and used my on-board video, which confirmed restoring bios to default worked. Good thing so far. So I start up Vista and the same problem, that led me to try and reset bios in the first placed, is still there. When I load up vista, the screen goes black and vista continues to load up. I can hear the startup sounds through the speakers.

So back to the 3pin thing. I read on

 http://www.wikihow.com/Reset-Your-BIOS

that I need to locate the words cmos reset on my motherboard, which I did. The problem is I do not see pins anywhere near the words. I want to reset but I need help locating. I'll see if I can upload pictures of my motherboard if I can get a hold of a camera.



These are the pictures of where the cmos reset supposedly is. The words anyway. This was taken from the cellphone so it's blurry

[Miz]

The beep code you're getting indicate a video problem.

Since it worked with the old video card but displays nothing with the onboard video, the onboard video chip is probably toast.

The fix would be to get a new video card.

I'm not clear on why resetting the BIOS would have any effect on a bad video chip, though.

[jinjishu]

The on board shouldn't be fried because I can see up until the loading screen for the vista startup is finished. The loading bar that slides back and forth at the bottom of the screen. I can also use the on-board on my Windows XP partition on this computer.

The problem is that a long time ago I uninstalled the video drivers on vista so I can install new ones for the graphic card. When I uninstalled them, the screen went black. A person on another forum said just because I unistalled the drivers doesn't mean the screen should be black and suggested that I reset my cmos.

I do not know how to install drivers back to my vista partition if I cannot see where I am going.

[jazz836062]

From what I can tell, you don't have your on-board graphics drivers and windows can't access them. Insert your vista DVD and go to the recovery console. start a cmd prompt and run the system file checker by typing the following:

sfc /scannow

See if that works and let us know how it goes.

[jinjishu]

It says

windows resource protection could not start up.

There was an option to install drivers though, so I will download them and see if I can install them.


EDIT:

I tried sfc/scannow after restarting and I didn't get that error, but it did not do anything to fix the video problem. When I entered it in, the command prompt showed other sfc functions and explained them. It may have done something, I did not get an error.

I also tried installing the drivers I had put on my flash drive and they won't show up when I click on load drivers button. I downloaded these from the nvidia site. Is there some special format they have to be in in order to install the driver?

EDIT2:

I will just do a clean install of windows 7 instead. I've been meaning to upgrade from vista for some time now.

Thanks for the help