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General Category => Technology and Programming => Topic started by: Dust on July 09, 2010, 07:14:39 pm
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I made the title simple, but this problem really isn't.
Here's what happened. So I've had this crappy hard drive for awhile now; it clicks, freezes my computer, files on it don't really even load anymore. So I took it out. This is where everything went wrong. I took out the drive and unhooked all of its data and power connections. Then I started my computer.
My computer now beeps with the following pattern:
<BEEEEEP> <Long pause> <BEEEEEP> <Long pause> *repeat*
I have an AWARD bios. So I spent awhile on Google trying to figure out what this means. I figured it was a RAM problem because I think I've heard this pattern before, but it didn't make any sense. The hard drive was far away from the RAM, the RAM was well seated and I didn't touch the RAM or even get close to the RAM. But every website told me different things. I've come up with a list of stuff the internet has told me is wrong (based on the info above):
-Could be a RAM problem
-Could be a video card problem
-Could be overheating of CPU
Overheating of the CPU was likely, since the past few days it has been close to 100 degrees here (F). So I decided to let my computer sit overnight. I pointed a regular fan at the fan hole on my case and went to sleep. I woke up the today and it was much nicer out and the CPU couldn't still be hot, but it's still beeping.
I've tried the following:
-Plugged the drive back in
-Reseated RAM several times
-Reseated video card several times
-Swapped out video card for different one
-Removed all but one hard drive
-Removed all hard drives
-Clear the CMOS
-Removed all USB devices
-Removed all add-in cards
None of this worked. I cannot try other RAM because I do not have spares laying around that work with my motherboard.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this or have any other suggestions for me to try?
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It turned out to be a RAM problem. My RAM slots must be messed up because I plugged and unplugged my RAM about 50 times and it finally worked.
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sounds like maybe you should look into getting a new motherboard because clearly there are some problems with yours.
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I've only really used it for about 8 months...
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I've only really used it for about 8 months...
that doesnt change anything
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that doesnt change anything
It changes the fact that I don't feel like buying a new motherboard just yet if there is even a 1% chance of mine still working.
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It changes the fact that I don't feel like buying a new motherboard just yet if there is even a 1% chance of mine still working.
but you broke it
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What makes you think that? There are multiple reasons for things not working other than someone breaking them. If your dog dies, does that mean you killed it?
If you think I touched the RAM when I took the hard drive out, you're wrong. The hard drive was at the very bottom of my case. It's probably the furthest from my RAM possible. If I had broken anything, it would have been my RAID controller.
Actually, I have a 3 year warranty on my motherboard so if anything else happens I will send it in. Thanks for the suggestion :D​.
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Yes I love having an unreliable motherboard that could go out at any moment running my computer. Nothing makes me feel more secure.
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Yeah, it's as if my data is about to magically disappear at any moment!
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Had that problem for a bit, also, I do sometimes hear slight beeping around, then normal computer, everything fine for me though. I do the same ram change quite often when it happens.
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Have you tried using another power supply? I'd recommend testing your computer out with someone elses and see what happens. Otherwise if you've done everything as you've said in your original post including the PSU, it pretty much must be the motherboard. You said you've only had it 8 months, is it still under warranty?