Did I just kill my motherboard? :(

just Scott · 3 Jul 2011 at 00:29

So basically, I have a MSI P67 GD55 and I just flashed the BIOS to the latest version. It went fine, I booted into the BIOS and it seemed OK. I then tried to redo my overclock, I put my settings back to normal then rebooted.

However, every time I try to reboot I get beeps and it doesn't boot. Not the normal quick beeps that this mobo does (I think it beeps once for every USB device plugged in), but it's those scary beeps that indicate a problem. It's 1 long beep then 2 short beeps. I've googled and found:

1 long, 2 short - Failure in video system - An error was encountered in the video BIOS ROM, or a horizontal retrace failure has been encountered

That doesn't sound good.

I've tried resetting the CMOS by taking the battery out for a few minutes and doing the jumper thing. I've tried just 1 stick of RAM in a couple of the slots. But it just does the 1 long 2 short beeps every time.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

just Scott · 3 Jul 2011 at 00:52

Progress: replaced video card with old one. Now it powers on, fans spin for 4-5 seconds, powers off. Repeats this forever.

Put back in my normal card (HD 6870) and the same is happening. Reboot cycle with the fans spinning for a few seconds. No beeps or picture on the screen.

Is this better or worse than beeps?

theron · 3 Jul 2011 at 00:57

no beeps is worse.

just Scott · 3 Jul 2011 at 01:07

OK for some reason now I'm back to my original 1 long beep 2 short beeps.

just Scott · 3 Jul 2011 at 01:16

I may have fixed it. Booted, this time I got 1 scary beep then 2 normal beeps as if the computer was working fine. This time I had my monitor plugged in. A message back up saying "CPU or memory changed. Press F2 to load defaults" or something like that. So I did, and it booted fine.

I think that might've been a permanent fix. If not, I will bump this thread.

Thanks anyway dudes.