Hello dear Tech and LTT community,
I am currently waiting for an 3080 to appear somewhere online in order to build a new system. In the meantime I'm trying to sell (parts of) my old PC.
Old PC:
OS: Windows 10
CPU: i5 3570k,
MB: Gigabyte ga-h77m-d3h
GPU: died 4 years ago so only onboard
RAM: DDR3 2x4GB HyperX Blu and 1x8G HyperX Fury
PSU: Thermaltake Berlin 630 watts
Yesterday when I wanted to start my machine (haven't done that in about a year besides one exception) I was confronted with the following beeping pattern: 3 long beeps, pause, 3 long beeps followed by the PC shutting down and restarting again. I looked that pattern up and found an article which said that something might be wrong with my ram.
I then removed all my ram and got continuous short beeps. After that I tried all possible configurations with my three ram sticks.
While trying only one stick, my machine suddenly booted like nothing ever happened.
I then turned off my computer again, changed nothing and tried turning it on again and got the same beeping pattern I described earlier. To be sure I tried it a second time, got the 3 long, pause, 3 long pattern again but now followed by continious short beeps until my machine turned off again. Since then I only get the 3 long, pause, 3 long pattern.
Resetting the bios did nothing for me btw.
Does anyone else have an idea what might be wrong with it?
Thanks in advance!