I bought this cutom PC two years ago and generally it has worked well, with some occassional graphics issues. Yesterday I was playing a game on it when it suddenly cut to a black screen and I was forced to do a manual restart. However, the computer, upon restarting, beeped four times, with one long beep and three short ones.
I looked into the matter and found on the internet that it involved an issue with my RAM, perhaps not being seated properly. I attempted to resolve the issue by re-seating the two memory sticks I have, and then swapping them into different slots, but to no avail. I then tried fitting in some other memory sticks from an older computer I have to see if there was any change, but that just made the matter worse as I don't think they could fit properly into this newer set up.
I have refitted the memory sticks to where they were, I now recieve FIVE beeps upon starting up the computer (one long, four short). I have been struggling to believe that my RAM really is the issue, only because I have never knowingly had problems with it, the graphics card however has given me a few headaches over the last couple of years. However, from the information I can gather from the internet, the beep code from the motehrboard refers to a RAM problem.
Here are my specs, I hope anyone can offer some insight into my situation. Thanks.
CPU: AMD BULLDOZER EIGHT CORE FX-8150 (3.60GHz/8MB CACHE/AM3+)
Motherboard: ASUS M5A97 R2.0 (DDR3, USB3.0, 6Gb/s)
RAM: 8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz, X.M.P (2 x 4GB KIT)
GPU: 3GB AMD RADEON HD7950 - DVI,HDMI,2 mDP - DX® 11, Eyefinity 4 Capable
SSD: 128GB KINGSTON V200 SSD, SATA 6 Gb (300MB/R, 190MB/W)
HDD: 1TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 32MB CACHE
I looked into the matter and found on the internet that it involved an issue with my RAM, perhaps not being seated properly. I attempted to resolve the issue by re-seating the two memory sticks I have, and then swapping them into different slots, but to no avail. I then tried fitting in some other memory sticks from an older computer I have to see if there was any change, but that just made the matter worse as I don't think they could fit properly into this newer set up.
I have refitted the memory sticks to where they were, I now recieve FIVE beeps upon starting up the computer (one long, four short). I have been struggling to believe that my RAM really is the issue, only because I have never knowingly had problems with it, the graphics card however has given me a few headaches over the last couple of years. However, from the information I can gather from the internet, the beep code from the motehrboard refers to a RAM problem.
Here are my specs, I hope anyone can offer some insight into my situation. Thanks.
CPU: AMD BULLDOZER EIGHT CORE FX-8150 (3.60GHz/8MB CACHE/AM3+)
Motherboard: ASUS M5A97 R2.0 (DDR3, USB3.0, 6Gb/s)
RAM: 8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz, X.M.P (2 x 4GB KIT)
GPU: 3GB AMD RADEON HD7950 - DVI,HDMI,2 mDP - DX® 11, Eyefinity 4 Capable
SSD: 128GB KINGSTON V200 SSD, SATA 6 Gb (300MB/R, 190MB/W)
HDD: 1TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 32MB CACHE
