Continuous beeps and no post screen

Ivancomputerguy · May 3, 2021

Hello. I just bought this pc for about 2$ to restore it. This machine is very old (15+ years). I blew out the dust with compressed air and it came with no PSU cables, so i connected it with a diffrent one (not sure if this matter, i think its worth noting). I started it up and it startes beeping. I can provide a video if needed. I reseated the ram and i got the same error. Im pretty sure the ram is fine, its just very old (512 mb ddr1). Power supply is 200-300 watts.

Analog · May 3, 2021

3 minutes ago, Ivancomputerguy said:

Hello. I just bought this pc for about 2$ to restore it. This machine is very old (15+ years). I blew out the dust with compressed air and it came with no PSU cables, so i connected it with a diffrent one (not sure if this matter, i think its worth noting). I started it up and it startes beeping. I can provide a video if needed. I reseated the ram and i got the same error. Im pretty sure the ram is fine, its just very old (512 mb ddr1). Power supply is 200-300 watts.

From what you are describing it is very likely the motherboard is dead. Did you test it before purchasing or was it for sale as is?

Ivancomputerguy · May 3, 2021

It was a prebuilt and it was never opened before. The motherboard wasnt tested. However, it lights up and the cpu fan is spinning. I have a video of the beeps here:

https://youtube.com/shorts/ywjtic0PmhM?feature=share

Ivancomputerguy · May 4, 2021

Ok, so i trouble shooted the thing myself, and i cleaned the ram slots and the ram by blowing into it, and putting it in. Then it got a diffrent beep (1 beep, 3 short) indicating a graphics card erorr. I took out my gpu, did the same to it and the slot, reseated it and it booted flawlessly. I plan to do a lot of things with this pc and i cant wait.