Computer Beeps :(

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Heyall, 

 

Recently ive bought an oculus rift s and Realized that my pc case and / motherboard do not have usb 3.0. and as any other person would i went ahead and bought a usb 3.0 pci expansion

I plugged it in and everything worked fine, went ahead to install the drivers and went to device manager for the USB 3.0 hub under Universal and updated it from there, when i restarted my pc. My DVI wasn’t working and it was plugged into my main monitor. But my HDMI was working for my 2nd monitor. and there was display on my 2nd but not on my main. ive ignored it then decided to troubleshoot my pc. I heard something about rearranging ram and i did so. Then i just keep getting 3 beeps no matter what way i rearrange them. I then resetted the cmos removing the battery. replugged 2 sticks of ram. and turned it on then heard 3 beeps, a pause then 5 beeps after that. and did more troubleshooting but i seem to

kee getting 3 beeps pause then 5 beeps. Not sure what the issue is but im

sure you guys can help me out Please

 

this is an old alienware pc from 2011 but everything was working fine till i downloaded the usb 3.0 expansion drivers. darn.

 

Specs here

 

GPU: GTX 1050 TI EVGA

CPU I7-975 3.33 Ghz EE

MOBO: (ill leave the model number look it up on google ) MS-7591 

256G SSD SAMSUNG

750w Thermatake PSU

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Not sure if this helps but the model for the USB expansion is 

Vantec 4 Port USB 3.0 PCIe with Internal 20 pin Host Card (UGT-PC345)

[SupaKomputa]

3 beeps : memory error

5 beeps : cpu error

 

3 beeps solution : clean the ram, rub it gently with a pencil eraser, spray the slot with a electronic contact cleaner.

5 beeps, i don't know, it could be the effect of the memory error.

since it's a very old motherboard, anything could happen, it's out of it's lifetime.

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8 hours ago, SupaKomputa said:

3 beeps : memory error

5 beeps : cpu error

 

3 beeps solution : clean the ram, rub it gently with a pencil eraser, spray the slot with a electronic contact cleaner.

5 beeps, i don't know, it could be the effect of the memory error.

since it's a very old motherboard, anything could happen, it's out of it's lifetime.

Thank you for the reply

 

Ive cleaned the ram with the eraser and im starting to now get 4 beeps. 

and not 3 or 5. 

 

Edit: recleaned the ram a little better now.

No longer 3 beeps or 4 now just 5

 

and Guessing 5 means Real time clock failure. 

Could it be the cmos battery?

[SupaKomputa]

Dell bios code Desktops
1 Possible Motherboard (covers BIOS corruption or ROM error)
2 No RAM detected
3 Possible Motherboard Chipset
4 RAM failure (other)
5 Real Time Clock (RTC)
6 Video card/chip
7 CPU

 

yeah RTC error, i don't know what it is, it could be the battery.

If you have a multimeter you can try to see if the bat is alive.

Google : Aurora 5 beeps and you have a lot of result.