Power up problems

mattyj1085 · 11 Jun 2007 at 12:09

I am having problems with a pc powering up it was fine up until a few days ago when it crashed whilst on a game and I just got no signal on the monitor display and had to reboot.

Now though when I try and power it up i get a variety of different problems.

Sometimes I get 3 short bleeps then it turns itself off, I dont know what this means and nothing shows on the screen.

Other times It starts the fans spin then shuts off then starts up agian in a continous loop until you pull the power lead out.

I have had it all apart and out of the case to try and eliminate it shorting out.
Problem is It did work when I took it out of the case the first time I tried now I've tried it again I get the same problems.

Anyone got any ideas on what could be faulty?

stickroad · 11 Jun 2007 at 12:11

Run your system back at stock and see if the problems still happen.

Weather your system is Orthos stable, 9hours, 18 hours what ever, it could still be becuase you have clocked your system up.

Just like my system, clocked it at 3.2GHZ Orthos = FFTs 9 hours stable as well as Blend 9 Hours stable, Memtest passed with no erros, then as soon as i go on it bam Restart lol.

mattyj1085 · 11 Jun 2007 at 12:25

Its not the system in sig its another I have (a64 3000+, abit AN8 Ultra)and its not overclocked anymore as Ive tried clearing the cmos many times to see it that solved the problem

stickroad · 11 Jun 2007 at 12:30

mattyj1085 said:
Its not the system in sig its another I have (a64 3000+, abit AN8 Ultra)and its not overclocked anymore as Ive tried clearing the cmos many times to see it that solved the problem

I see, should have stated that. Yeah anyway, 3 Short beeps signifies a Memory Error. Test each Memory module at a time and run Memtest for each of them.
Make sure you have also configured the right voltages and timings that are stated for that particular Memory.

mattyj1085 · 11 Jun 2007 at 12:55

stickroad said:
I see, should have stated that. Yeah anyway, 3 Short beeps signifies a Memory Error. Test each Memory module at a time and run Memtest for each of them.
Make sure you have also configured the right voltages and timings that are stated for that particular Memory.

I would check the voltages if I could get into the bios I dont get any display on the screen what so ever could it be a graphics card problem??