System Won't Post

Big Kev · 16 Aug 2008 at 13:42

My system froze for about 15 minutes, so I pressed the restart button and then nothing, not even a beep.

I switched it off, pulled out the power cable, then restarted and this time there was 3 long beeps, a gap of about 10 seconds, then continuous long beeps.

The manual has nothing that matches this, I've cleared CMOS, taken out the memory, just using one at a time in various slots, I've taken out and reseated the graphics card numerous times, started with no memory or graphics card and the same sequence of beeps occurs every time.

My specs are:

Gigabyte P35C-DS3R Rev 1.1
E2160 @ 3G
4 x 1G Crucial Ballistix PC2-6400
Sapphire X1950 pro
Corsair 620w psu

In the manual it states that continuous long beeps equate to the graphics card not being inserted correctly, but I've reseated this five time so far.

I have no access to another computer, or spare parts and am running out of ideas now, so am hoping for some expert advice, as I've only got my old computer at the moment and it's miles behind new newer one and doing my nut in.

Cheers,

Kev

Acid_death69 · 16 Aug 2008 at 13:44

How long have you had that rig setup?
Regardless of how many times you press the on button are you just getting the three beeps?

Big Kev · 16 Aug 2008 at 13:47

I built it last September and those three, followed by continuous beeps occurs every single time now and I've restarted it about 15 times.

Acid_death69 · 16 Aug 2008 at 13:49

the old pc that your on atm, has it got a PCI-E slot on it? if it is your GPU you could try it on ya old pc.

Big Kev · 16 Aug 2008 at 13:55

Acid_death69 said:
the old pc that your on atm, has it got a PCI-E slot on it? if it is your GPU you could try it on ya old pc.

My old pc is AGP/DDR only, hence my problem there.

Acid_death69 · 16 Aug 2008 at 13:56

arghh, right, hmm. Did you have anything OC'ed like GPU CPU?

Big Kev · 16 Aug 2008 at 14:18

Acid_death69 said:
arghh, right, hmm. Did you have anything OC'ed like GPU CPU?

CPU at 3, from stock 1.8 and memory at 1000 from stock 800 and they've caused no problems at all since last September.

Acid_death69 · 16 Aug 2008 at 14:37

how long have you had this stuff and did you get it all from the same dealer?

Big Kev · 16 Aug 2008 at 14:55

After a good 25 different variations, it's now booted up, all the memory in and it looks as it was, why, I have no idea.

Cheers for your help mate and knowing my luck, I might have to post again in the near future. :rolleyes:

Acid_death69 · 16 Aug 2008 at 14:56

lol glad it's booted bk up. chances are that it might of needed to cool down

Mp4 · 16 Aug 2008 at 14:58

Nice one , my sys fell last week when we had that thunderstorm , having to upgrade!

Big Kev · 16 Aug 2008 at 14:58

Acid_death69 said:
lol glad it's booted bk up. chances are that it might of needed to cool down

Don't know about the machine needing to cool down, I was nearly blowing my top anyway, although I might underclock things for a few weeks.

Big Kev · 18 Aug 2008 at 20:26

I've just found out that one of the memory sticks and the first two memory slots nearest the cpu have died.

Any ideas what may have caused this, the memory blowing the slot, or the other way round, so I suppose I can either RMA the dead memory stick, sell the 4 x 1G on and buy two 2G sticks, losing dual channel, or RMA both the board and memory and rebuild.

Due to the fact that I can't really be bothered with a rebuild, reinstall of Windows etc, I'm tempted to just swap the memory for some 1066, although the Gigabyte website doesn't recommend any compatible 2G sticks.