Gigabyte Gaming 3 and AS Rock Fatal1ty AB350 problems

Chris Cannon · 9 Feb 2018 at 19:08

Hi I bought a Gigabyte Gaming 3 AB350 motherboard for my son's computer for Christmas which worked fine for about a week then started developing freezes and restarts and eventually died. I returned it for the same model. Same thing happened, I have yet to return it but now have an AS Rock Fatal1ty AB350 motherboard. I've only had it installed 2 days and this now won't boot. First it gave out 4 beeps. Which I thought was the graphics card, so I changed to a different pci slot and it booted fine. Now it won't boot again and gives 3 beeps followed by 8 beeps.

I had both Gigabyte motherboards checked out by a local pc specialist who ran diagnostics on the whole system and confirmed both boards are faulty.

Is this AS Rock motherbaord faulty as well?

I can't believe what bad luck I'm having.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Chris Cannon · 9 Feb 2018 at 23:25

I changed the PSU after the first motherboard died.

Chris Cannon · 9 Feb 2018 at 23:28

P.S. the computer has eventually booted back up and working again but I only feel it's a matter of 24 - 48 hours before it goes down again and possibly that would be the end of the motherboard.

Chris Cannon · 10 Feb 2018 at 09:00

i edited my previous reply as i realised i was getting my psu and cpu mixed up doh!

Chris Cannon · 10 Feb 2018 at 14:57

it’s a 600w EVGA new.