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Starting Issue With Pc


DrEvil270183

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Evening all,

Basically I turn my PC on and it beeps once, all starts up fine. No issues whats so ever.

Sometime like this morning, it beeps twice and slightly longer than usually and then nothing happens. Then fans are active as I can hear them but never boots up at all. No signals to the monitors either.

I've only had issue last year with ram, replaced that and did a clean install. That was issues with crashing etc all the time.

I'm wondering if a parts no messing up? Motherboard maybe? Any ideas?

Its a Pentium 4 2.66GHz, all the Ram is being picked up, Connect 3d Radeon 9600 series graphics card, motherboard is a Shuttle mainboard AV49VN.

It's getting pretty old now but has always been reliable until now.

More scrared that any day now I won't be able to turn the comp on at all :S

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Try running memtest to see if your ram is failing.

Can be found here:

here

If that passes then I am afraid you should probably get another system to test your parts in. Boring and tedious but you will find out that way :)

EDIT: I presume you have checked for loose wires etc?

A long continuous beep is usually when you have forgotten to plug the pci express power leads into the graphics card (if it needs one). But the fact that it only does it every so often means it wont be that ;))

I think I am still drunk, I seem to be rambling. Maybe I will come back and reply when sober. SORRY!!!

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My computer sometimes does that - It just hangs a few seconds into the boot sequence and beeps. I found out that it was a USB TV card, if I unplugged that it carried on as normal. So check things like that.

Also the number beeps/timing is a code for what the fault is - you should be able to look it up online, but I think it'll be specific to your motherboard.

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A long continuous beep is usually when you have forgotten to plug the pci express power leads into the graphics card (if it needs one). But the fact that it only does it every so often means it wont be that ;))

Mine did that when I turned on my computer

SHAT A brick

OT:

I had a similar problem, took the battery out of my motherboard for 24 hours and then put it back in and turn it on and it was fine; won't work all the time but if you can't find anything else, try that :)

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