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Offline Raptor

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More Motherboard Woes
« on: December 25, 2011, 11:59:10 PM »
Killed my last motherboard, ordered a replacement,

Asus PCI-E SLI

Took out the old one and put in the new one, however I am still not able to get it to turn on. When I try turning it on, I get 1 long beep, 3 short, pause then 1 short beep.
Nothing shows up on my monitor.

Looking online I decipher there is a RAM issue, I switch slots, take out, try each one but no success. My RAM has been working before I killed my motherboard, don't want to go buy new RAM if it is not necessary.

Any other thoughts? or explanation of why my newly bought RAM is not working.

Hopefully my last thread about this.

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Re: More Motherboard Woes
« Reply #1 on: December 26, 2011, 01:11:52 AM »
are you sure the motherboard supports the ram version you are installing?

does the new motherboard support the CPU?

just maybe a possibility

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Re: More Motherboard Woes
« Reply #2 on: December 26, 2011, 01:24:21 AM »
I ordered the exact same motherboard, so everything is compatible.

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Re: More Motherboard Woes
« Reply #3 on: December 26, 2011, 03:04:40 AM »
Killed my last motherboard, ordered a replacement,

Asus PCI-E SLI

Took out the old one and put in the new one, however I am still not able to get it to turn on. When I try turning it on, I get 1 long beep, 3 short, pause then 1 short beep.
Nothing shows up on my monitor.

Looking online I decipher there is a RAM issue, I switch slots, take out, try each one but no success. My RAM has been working before I killed my motherboard, don't want to go buy new RAM if it is not necessary.

Any other thoughts? or explanation of why my newly bought RAM is not working.

Hopefully my last thread about this.

And then it turns out you killed your ram and your old motherboard was just fine. Thought of that? From what I figured from your text your ram was not 'newly bought' it has been in use in your old motherboard. So it may have been that the motherboard killed your ram when it died - or the problems with the computer were always ram related and the motherboard was fine.
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Re: More Motherboard Woes
« Reply #4 on: December 26, 2011, 03:25:50 AM »
Or, as an even worse scenario, your PSU spiked and fried both the mobo and RAM, not to mention your GPU...

I'd recommend to test both the memory sticks and the GPU in a known good environment, i.e. in another computer. If they are good, then try a trustworthy PSU in your own machine. Or vice versa.

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Re: More Motherboard Woes
« Reply #5 on: December 26, 2011, 09:43:57 AM »
Have you got all the power connections in? Make sure everything is in completely. That could be the 24 pin and the 8/4 pin by the cpu. Then you may have a pin for the video card.

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Re: More Motherboard Woes
« Reply #6 on: December 26, 2011, 10:25:05 AM »
or the problems with the computer were always ram related and the motherboard was fine.
The old motherboard was killed in a flashing gone array incident.

Picked up new RAM today, no luck, same beep code.

Hoping it is not my GPU (just bought 3 weeks ago)
« Last Edit: December 26, 2011, 11:13:33 AM by Raptor »

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Re: More Motherboard Woes
« Reply #7 on: December 26, 2011, 11:37:10 AM »
The old motherboard was killed in a flashing gone array incident.

Picked up new RAM today, no luck, same beep code.

Hoping it is not my GPU (just bought 3 weeks ago)
Do you mean it was killed while flashing the BIOS? If so, then do try with another PSU. There's also a reason for any kind of incidents, and any electric instability is poison for flashing.

After that, if you still get the same beeps, remove the GPU. If you don't have any replacement handy, try to boot without it to hear if the beeps are different. Actually, it would be good to unplug all devices, leaving only the processor and one stick of RAM and a known good GPU when trying to find the reason of the beeping. No hard disks, opticals, nothing. Only the motherboard, PSU, GPU and one memory module at a time. If you have fitting spare parts, try them. When you can boot to POST, you can add a module, one at a time and reboot.

Remember, for troubleshooting purposes the spares don't have to be exact equivalents with your original setup. Any matching component will do, because you're only going to boot the rig, not play games. Even a decade old PCI video card would do for checking, if the problem lies in your GPU or it's slot or power.

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Re: More Motherboard Woes
« Reply #8 on: December 30, 2011, 11:30:43 AM »
Just bought a new video card, and RAM. Same beep code.

1 long, 3 short, pause then 1 short.

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Re: More Motherboard Woes
« Reply #9 on: December 30, 2011, 04:53:15 PM »
Repeat: Check first with another PSU. Test your memory, GPU and if possible, your processor on a different motherboard.

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Re: More Motherboard Woes
« Reply #10 on: December 31, 2011, 05:09:07 AM »
Your beep codes, one long followed by three short beeps indicate the video card is not found or the video ram is bad. The final short beep means that everything else is working. This from my ASUS manual.

Make sure that power is getting to the auxiliary plug to the video card.
If you have an old plain vanilla PCI video card laying around, use that instead of the PCIe card for your initial boot into the BIOS. At the least you should be able to see the diagnostics on the screen and you should manage the BIOS. Once in the BIOS, you may need to tell it to use your PCIe port.
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Re: More Motherboard Woes
« Reply #11 on: January 02, 2012, 04:50:09 AM »
Is that a modular PSU btw? If so make sure both ends are plugged in correctly. I've had this happen. Try a different PSU if you have one around.

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Re: More Motherboard Woes
« Reply #12 on: January 04, 2012, 06:23:09 PM »
Your beep codes, one long followed by three short beeps indicate the video card is not found or the video ram is bad. The final short beep means that everything else is working. This from my ASUS manual.

Make sure that power is getting to the auxiliary plug to the video card.
If you have an old plain vanilla PCI video card laying around, use that instead of the PCIe card for your initial boot into the BIOS. At the least you should be able to see the diagnostics on the screen and you should manage the BIOS. Once in the BIOS, you may need to tell it to use your PCIe port.
This sort of fixed my issue. I had to go buy a PCI card (expensive for how old and crappy they are)

I logged into the BIOS and changed the video card settings to PCI Express, turned off the PC and put in the PCI-E card, took out PCI card, but nothing. Same error code.

Put back the PCI card and it works fine.

What do I need to do in BIOS to get the PCI-E slot to read?


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The installation CD that came with my motherboard does not support Windows 7. Most recent was Windows Vista. Can I get it to install the drivers without changing to an older OS?

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Re: More Motherboard Woes
« Reply #13 on: January 04, 2012, 07:41:03 PM »
check the mobo website.  they should have all the bios/drivers online.

http://support.asus.com/download/options.aspx?SLanguage=en&type=1

can you post a link to the mobo you bought? 


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Re: More Motherboard Woes
« Reply #14 on: January 04, 2012, 08:13:13 PM »
check the mobo website.  they should have all the bios/drivers online.

http://support.asus.com/download/options.aspx?SLanguage=en&type=1

can you post a link to the mobo you bought? 


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http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_775/P5NE_SLI/#CPUS
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This one has Revision 0505 on it (bit more out dated)

I downloaded the BIOS revision 1406, but have not updated yet. Having difficulty with that and the CD doesn't run.