New build Bleeping

[racket]

Hi

I bought my son all the bits to build a PC, we have already built 2 and have no problems. Asus mother board i7 processor 8g of ram, when we turned it on it would bleep 3 times and then shut down, we tried different ram still no joy, anyone any ideas ?

Cheers
Chris

 

[Igorian]

Do all 3 beeps have the same duration or are there long and shorts ones?

What type of RAM and how many DIMMs are you installing?

Which model of motherboard?

Have you tried reseating the graphics adaptor (assuming not using onboard)?

 

[homertimpson]

1 long, 2 short beeps usually means a display adapter problem.
If you are using a standalone video card try using a different one - or does the m/b have onboard?

3 long beeps usually points to a keyboard error.

Homer

 

[racket]

The bleeps are all the same lenght, can't see it being the keyboard that would'nt make it shut down.

The spec is:

Asus P7H55-M/USB3 motherboard
i7 860 2.80GHz Quad Core 2.66GHz 1333FSB Processor
Corsair 4 GB DDR3 PC3-10666 X2 8GB total Ram
500w power supply

Graphics card was not installed we were using the on board HDMI out

Cheers

 

[tcinbg]

POST AMI BIOS beep codes

* 1 - Memory refresh timer error
* 2 - Parity error in base memory (first 64 KiB block)
* 3 - Base memory read/write test error

From here

 

[Igorian]

Have you tried it with a single stick of RAM? Try both, but one at a time.

Have you changed any BIOS settings with respect to overclocking?

It's also worth checking if your RAM is on the QVL.

 

[racket]

Cheers for all the info.
we swopping ram but no effect.
we couldnt get into the Bios as the screen never came on, basically hit the power button, everything fires up one bleep then 3 bleeps together after 5 seconds the machine shuts down.

I tried removing everything from the board except the processor and this still gave the same result.

anyhow it's back with micro direct as I bought all the bits off them and they told me it was all compatible, I think the processor or the board are faulty, trouble is they need 7 days to look at it.

Cheers