Need help figuring out why PC won't boot fully

Xtreme Gamer · February 23, 2016

My PC started to not boot up fully and only turn on for a couple to few seconds, then shut off for a couple seconds, then start back up and it would keep doing that until I shut off the PSU myself. So I then took out the GPU and tried booting, Same problem. Next I tried taking out the bios battery for a bit then placed it back in, but that didn't fix it. Next I tried taking all ram out and placing a 1 DIMM in each slot to see if it was a bad ram module or the motherboard ram slot(s). 1 of my ram modules would cause it to beep rapidly with an LED code of 51. The 2nd one I don't remember for sure but either it did the same thing, or it would boot to the BIOS reset menu since I had reset the bios from the motherboard just before this started happening. Then the 3rd one would stall at LED code 32 and restart on itself after a while of staying like that. The 4th one then stalled on LED code 15 and it would stall then restart itself. And after all that, I placed all 4 ram modules back in. But now it stalls again (I forgot what LED code it stalls at at this point.). I have left in my SSD boot and SSD storage drives, wifi ac pcie card, pcie sound card, and pcie card reader. My friend has a desktop across the street who may let me test out his ram modules but im not sure if he will. What do I do from here? I really need this back up and running. Thanks for the help guys!

Droidbot · February 23, 2016

Take out all of your PCI-e cards besides the ones you need and try redoing memory testing again - your system may be having issues with PCI memory allocation.

What brand PSU do you have? You may be having power issues due to deterioration.

Xtreme Gamer · February 23, 2016

9 hours ago, Droidbot said:

Take out all of your PCI-e cards besides the ones you need and try redoing memory testing again - your system may be having issues with PCI memory allocation.

What brand PSU do you have? You may be having power issues due to deterioration.

I tried removing all pcie cards and re-doing the ram test. But is still hangs on either 32 or 15. What I find weird is that when it does manage to post, I go to plug in the hdmi cable and it's like it knows that and just shuts off on me. Why is this???? Also the brand of the PSU is OCZ