Kt3 Ultra ARU help

hallo,
I have this small problem.  I seem to be able to boot up however when i reboot it wont boot even past bios.  It will only boot when i reset cmos.  Also i am getting 2 beeps short pause then 1 beep anyone tell me where to go to find out what this boards beeps stand for?
KT3 Ultra ARU
Ahtlon XP 2200
512 pc2700 ram
GeForce 4 ti 4400

It looks like there is a setting wrong in the BIOS.
When you clear the cmos everything goes back to the default values. Have you checked the Processor settings? Changes are it does not corrospond to the XP2200 (which is a very nice cpu. congrat!)
After you've rebooted the second time, some settings are automatically saved and conflict with your processor, thus no boot.
Which version of the bios do you have? Try the latest version.
Good luck.
Martin

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