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Subject: Mobo beeping, Power light flashing

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Name: Koby
Date: February 4, 2008 at 21:27:56 Pacific
Subject: Mobo beeping, Power light flashing
OS: XP
CPU/Ram: N/a
Model/Manufacturer: Gigabyte GA-8IG1000MK, 3.

Comment:

Hi, I have a thermalake TR2-430W psu. I'm running a Radeon X850xt, an aftermarket fan on the radeon, a small fan on the cpu, 2 CD drives and 1 HD, with 4 sticks of Pc3200 512meg kingston ram.
Tonight my pc started running like mud. Then I had to hard reset it after waiting 10 minutes for it to soft-reset. Then I would freeze on the ram checking part of bootup. Would beep incessently if I tried to get into the Bios. Then... it just beeped like crazy and the green power LED would blink with the beeping. I un-plugged everything, still beeps. I unplug ATX, no noise... I'm not too much of a techie... but this tells me it's probably the power supply, maybe the board. Ideas?

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Response Number 1

Name: Richard59
Date: February 5, 2008 at 00:05:24 Pacific
Subject: Mobo beeping, Power light flashing

Reply: (edit)

Troubleshooting has to be a systematic process.
Start with the bare basics.
To get a successful POST (Power On Self Test) you need only the following items connected:
Motherboard
Powersupply ( 20/24 pin power connector plus 4 pin P4 CPU power connector)
1 stick of ram
Monitor plugged into geaphics ( I believe the motherboard listed has onboard graphics)
CPU with heatsink & fan connected
Keyboard
No harddrives or optic drives. No plug-in AGP or PCI cards. Nothing connected to any USB ports.
What happens when you try to start up in this barebones configuration? What if any sequence of beeps do you get from the motherboard?
I used to have a signature but it disappeared and I just couldn't be bothered writing another so please feel free to ingore this.

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Response Number 2

Name: aegis
Date: February 5, 2008 at 11:53:56 Pacific
Subject: Mobo beeping, Power light flashing

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If you get no beep(s) after doing the above, remove the RAM. If the motherboard is working you should get error beeps with the RAM removed.

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Response Number 3

Name: Koby
Date: February 5, 2008 at 19:55:12 Pacific
Subject: Mobo beeping, Power light flashing

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I removed everything and started from scratch. Everything seemed normal. Then when I plugged all my peripherals back in, it takes 2 minutes to get past memcheck, and for some reason I get this strange... warning I guess? "CPUID :0F33 Patch ID:000c"
Does anyone know what this means?

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