Five beeps on MSI P67 board=CPU fault?

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Turned my PC on today to hear the graphics card fan (KFA 780 6GB HOF edition) going full pelt and nothing on the monitor. Then came a noise I've never heard before. Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. Hmm. Looked it up and it would appear that the board at least thinks my CPU is done for.

It's a core i5 2500k that I've had running at 4.2GHz for an easy couple of years now, maybe more and it's been absolutely faultless in every situation. Temps were good (under a Gelid Tranquillo) and windows and every game I'd thrown at it ran perfectly. I was playing Shadows of Mordor on it last night until 2am without an issue.

Anyway, is it really likely to be the processor? Can they suddenly and literally stop without warning? I doubt it had overheated either so I'm not very pleased. Do you think there's any hope for it? Any suggestions? I've re-seated it and reinstalled the HS, checked all connections, reset the BIOS with the button on the back but I can't reach the actual jumper (who on earth decided between the last PCI slot and the PCI-E slot is a good location? I can only just see it past the HS of the 780 never mind get a hold of it!) etc but it just won't boot. :mad:

No CPU since the car needs MOT and a service this month. Not best pleased.
 
Clear the CMOS and remove the battery. If this doesn't work try removing RAM and trying it in different slots, one stick at a time. Make sure the PC is unplugged when you do this though. I wouldn't think it would be the CPU.

What are full system specs?
 
Problem on this board is half the memory slots are covered by the CPU HS.

Full spec is the aforementioned MSI P67-C45(B3), the same Intel i5 2500k overclocked to 4.2GHz with, from what I remember either no or a very small VCore bump but I'm pretty sure it's just the multiplier I changed. 4x2GB Corsair XMS2 low profile ram DIMMS, 1600MHz I think. Samsung 830 256GB, Samsung 1TB Hard disk and two optical drives.
 
Pretty unusual for CPU to fail - unless you've been feeding it very high VTT voltages.

Does the CPU cooler have a backplate - long shot but on one of my builds started getting boot failures after awhile with a code for failed CPU init - turned out there was an SMT component under the backplate that had eventually pushed through the padding and shorted on the metal.
 
Ok, I swapped out the 780 for an old 9600GT from an older machine and it boots! Windows 10 throws a wobbly and I'm having to run the reset program but it boots and shows a display. Once I get windows reinstalled I will swap back the card and see what's up but it looks like it might be the card. It's just over a year old so should be under warranty.
 
Reinstalled windows 7, PC boots up just fine so I swapped in the 780 again. Same thing. Post beeps, five beeps, no boot. Looks like the card might be goosed. Going to ask a friend to check it on their machine before I try to RMA it.
 
Well it looks like it's the card. A friend tested it in his machine and it does the same thing, fans at full speed as soon as the power goes on and his machine also refuses to boot. RMA time. I've only had it just over a year.
 
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