Help me please ?

[jcole54321]

Hi all, I would love some help. I've had this pc, quite a while. Maybe 7 years or so ??.

 And all was fine until about 50 minutes ago. I was just chilling, Spotify, discord, the normal sorta stuff and it blue screened. After that it flat our refused to boot into windows 10 again. I tired startup repair, command prompt, safe mode. Nothing worked. 

After about 20 attempts to fix the BSOD i was getting to video output from the card and a post code error. I tried individual sticks of ram, nothing helped. Took the video card out and changed slots, no difference and even tried reseating the CPU. It's kinda an old ish machine but I am now getting one long beep, 3 short then a pause and 2 short beeps. 

 

The CPU is an i7. Couldn't tell you what gen. Think around 2011 kinda time.

Asus p6x5803 motherboard.

32 GB of ram

And an amd radion r9 270x

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I won't be too sad if it's completely dead because it is quite old, I would just like to be able to use it still if it's not completely dead..

Looking for any help, even if it's just emotional ?.

Thanks

[MadDuke]

Had a similar situation.

Take out all your RAM and just put it in one slot. Then move to another and so on (then try with another RAM module if it stil is not working). Could be a dead DIMM.  

[jcole54321]

1 minute ago, Mad_Duke said:

Had a similar situation.

Take out all your RAM and just put it in one slot. Then move to another and so on (then try with another RAM module if it stil is not working). Could be a dead DIMM.  

Hi, I've tried that and I get a constant red dram led whenever I do it

[Ukaros]

acording to the asus website there is no such beep code https://www.asus.com/support/FAQ/1029959/

[MadDuke]

3 minutes ago, jcole54321 said:

Hi, I've tried that and I get a constant red dram led whenever I do it

Well, if it doesn't load with just one RAM stick, there is your problem.    Also, cleared CMOS?

[FuzzyLogic]

Along with what @Mad_Duke said, try putting your other RAM sticks in the first slot to see if they work. If none of them do, that slot may be dead. Then, try each of the RAM sticks in the other slots; it may still boot.

[jcole54321]

7 minutes ago, Mad_Duke said:

Well, if it doesn't load with just one RAM stick, there is your problem.    Also, cleared CMOS?

Yes, or at least I think I have. And I don't understand why it will boot kinda with all my ram in but not one stick or two

[FuzzyLogic]

2 minutes ago, jcole54321 said:

Yes, or at least I think I have. And I don't understand why it will boot kinda with all my ram in but not one stick or two

That is strange. Try clearing the CMOS after reseating a single stick of RAM, but before you turn the PC on. If nothing works, then your motherboard is probably malfunctioning.

[jcole54321]

Just now, thegreengamers said:

That is strange. Try clearing the CMOS after reseating a single stick of RAM, but before you turn the PC on.

I've done that too ??. I mean I'm not 100% sure in how I clear the CMOS on this motherboard but I've done what the Asus website says.

[FuzzyLogic]

1 minute ago, jcole54321 said:

I've done that too ??. I mean I'm not 100% sure in how I clear the CMOS on this motherboard but I've done what the Asus website says.

You can clear the CMOS by taking the button cell battery out of the motherboard, or finding a piece that says something like "CLR_CMOS" under it and moving the jumper. If there are 2 individual pins, simply remove the plastic jumper, and if there are 3 pins, move the jumper to the other pin.

[jcole54321]

2 minutes ago, thegreengamers said:

You can clear the CMOS by taking the button cell battery out of the motherboard, or finding a piece that says something like "CLR_CMOS" under it and moving the jumper. If there are 2 individual pins, simply remove the plastic jumper, and if there are 3 pins, move the jumper to the other pin.

Yup, tried that. Nothing. Now getting 1 long 3 short (then 2 short But that's just no VGA detected)

[jcole54321]

14 minutes ago, thegreengamers said:

You can clear the CMOS by taking the button cell battery out of the motherboard, or finding a piece that says something like "CLR_CMOS" under it and moving the jumper. If there are 2 individual pins, simply remove the plastic jumper, and if there are 3 pins, move the jumper to the other pin.

Ok, update. It posts. Then does 3 short beeps. Pc runs for maybe a minute then powers of and restarts. Any idea?

[FuzzyLogic]

5 hours ago, jcole54321 said:

Ok, update. It posts. Then does 3 short beeps. Pc runs for maybe a minute then powers of and restarts. Any idea?

Well, your motherboard might be shorting out. Is there any dust in the case, and is there anything touching the metal bits on the back of the motherboard? If there isn't, then the mobo is probably toast, and there's nothing we can do about it.

[MadDuke]

Could also be a PSU problem. But. Had a busted DIMM slot MBO (still running) which was doing this strange behaviour unil I just removed the stick from DIMM 0 and it is working now for 2 years straigh in an arcade cabinet.