DOA board?

Senture · 24 Oct 2007 at 19:35

Hi everyone

just finished building a PC as a suprize for a friend but ran into a little snag. Upon powering on the PC, the system produces 3 long beeps over and over again. There isn't any information in the manual on the beep codes and I can't find any conclusion online. The motherboard is an Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

Cheers
Senture

Cob · 24 Oct 2007 at 19:42

Probably a memory issue.

Ensure the sticks are seated correctly. If they are then try with only one stick, and then with the other.

Thebug · 24 Oct 2007 at 19:43

Re-seat the memory and gfx and make sure you have the 4 pin connector connected.

Senture · 24 Oct 2007 at 19:55

Just tryed both sticks in different slots (1 at a time), reseated the cpu and graphics card, still no joy

Cob · 24 Oct 2007 at 20:27

What's the rest of the set-up?

Senture · 24 Oct 2007 at 20:57

Cheap 600W PSU, P4 640, 2x 512 ddr 400, 800 sata, geforce 7600gt

Cob · 24 Oct 2007 at 21:07

God knows.

Can you try your own memory in it?

Senture · 24 Oct 2007 at 21:22

Nope, DDR2 laptop memory

Senture · 24 Oct 2007 at 22:24

Excuse the bouble post, but is there any chance it could be the CPU that's FUBAR?

BENdage · 24 Oct 2007 at 22:30

Possible, but I'd be blaming memory, mobo, PSU or graphics first. Is there another system you can swap parts with?

Senture · 24 Oct 2007 at 23:11

I've tryed everything apart from CPU and memory simply because I can't

Senture · 25 Oct 2007 at 11:15

Thanks for the help and advice, found the cause of the problem thismorning at work. The CPU was dead, swaped it for a new one.

Thanks again

Cob · 25 Oct 2007 at 23:13

Unlucky. CPU's are rarely DOA.