Enough is enough

[DeltrusDisc]

So I go afk to put switch my laundry from washer to dryer and let me just say, my computer has been fine for hours prior to this 2 minute AFK, right? No problems, nothing. I come back downstairs, and holy wtf, monitor is black and some fans in my case are ripping through the space time continuum. Sure enough it was my GPU fans going wild, and I had to do a full power down and back up, after I tried just the restart button on my case and it started resetting and I got 4 beeps from the motherboard, with the first being barely longer than the final 3. I didn't get much of anything out of event viewer, but I juts feel Asera was probably right, it's time to replace the power supply. My 5 year warranty Corsair TX650watt V1 from 2010 perhaps just no longer wants to keep going. Note: computer IS running just fine right now and I'm playing Rift no problems...

SeaSonic X650 or 750 is what I think I'll be upgrading too... Just displeased I'm more or less being forced into this.

[vesseblah]

Four beeps usually refers to memory problem. More likely than PSU is that the motherboard burned.

[Jurwi]

Check your motherboard manual, see what 4 beeps mean (in case you haven't already).

And next time, please for the love of god, give your thread a proper title.

[DeltrusDisc]

=S

Are you sure? I'm running everything fine right now and with all the previous hiccups and what-not, I wouldn't be too surprised at a dying PSU. I don't think a burnt motherboard would be letting me game no problems now, would you?

---------- Post added 2011-12-16 at 12:02 PM ----------

And next time, please for the love of god, give your thread a proper title.

Well, excuse me.

[vesseblah]

Are you sure? I'm running everything fine right now and with all the previous hiccups and what-not, I wouldn't be too surprised at a dying PSU. I don't think a burnt motherboard would be letting me game no problems now, would you?

You really need to work on your communication skills then, as the first post (including the strange topic) reads as if your computer is not booting anymore.

Anyway, my first reply still applies. It is very unlikely that the PSU would die after one year of use (burn-in time for electronics is around 2-4 months) in a way that fans still run. Four beeps is usually memory problem, and broken RAM sticks can and will cause mysterious crashes. Run memtest, try swapping ram sticks into different slots, try running with only one ram stick and so on.

[DeltrusDisc]

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1610301

I'll do what you suggested, but I know the beeps did sound kind of off, like the first one did last longer than the other 3 and I just found this by searching 4 beeps. They are suggesting it could be that the vga card just wasn't detected, which is what these motherboards could mean with that 1 long beep and 3 short beeps.

[Deleted]

=S

Are you sure? I'm running everything fine right now and with all the previous hiccups and what-not, I wouldn't be too surprised at a dying PSU. I don't think a burnt motherboard would be letting me game no problems now, would you?

First of all, if mbo is giving away 4 beeps make an effort to find out what do they mean. Every mbo manufacturer provides manuals on product page.

You'd be surprised how long can u play with degraded memory module with only experiencing few wow-errors here and there. Also with faulty power regulation on semi-dead mobo only problem i once had with it was not allowing cpu to access C-states, literally i was able to do anything with pc as long as i placed some serious stress on cpu. So any hardware malfunction dosen't necessarily mean complete system shutdown and no way of booting it.

Topic titles should be about problem or topic you need help with, not about your personal frustration.

P.S.

10 seconds of using google for phoenix bios:

4 Beeps: System timer failure

Explanation: There is a problem with one or more of the timers used by the system to control functions on the motherboard.

Diagnosis: This is usually a motherboard failure.

Dont take this as a definite answer, make sure u know what 4 beeps mean for your motherboard by looking into manual!

[DeltrusDisc]

Edited first post and topic for clarity. Trying to find the beeps section in my manual.

[vesseblah]

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1610301

I'll do what you suggested, but I know the beeps did sound kind of off, like the first one did last longer than the other 3 and I just found this by searching 4 beeps. They are suggesting it could be that the vga card just wasn't detected, which is what these motherboards could mean with that 1 long beep and 3 short beeps.

If you have Asus P8 series motherboard, like for example the P8P67Pro referred in the forum link above, it has those very handy four diagnostic leds on the board next to relevant components. One for CPU fail, one for RAM fail, one for VGA fail and one for BIOS fail. There should be exactly one red led up after the booting hangs when you hear the beeps to indicate which part of the POST failed.

[Itakas]

Maybe this can help, listed quite a few bios and their beep signals...

http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm

In the end, its best ,as many suggested, to look at your motherboard manual, since it will give you the best info.

[Niight9]

i had this beeps problem in the past,

i just remove the small round battery (like those from watches) at the bottom of the motherboard and put back, it worked for me but if nothing change try to put a new one

[DeltrusDisc]

Found it! 1 continuous followed by 3 short = no VGA detected. Matches up well with the fact the monitor had gone black for whatever reason. Sounds like a driver crash perhaps that didn't restore.

[Bodasafa]

Not sure if this will help but its a good tip regardless.

Once a month I open my case and blow out the fan with compressed air and the push in on my memory sticks.

There is a problem known as "creep" where socketed items will come loose. Make sure those mem sticks are pushed in and locked in place.

[DeltrusDisc]

I assure you I've been in and out of my case more times in the past 8 months than I should have to. >_< Definitely not what you're suggesting, though I wish it were that simple.

[Asera]

Found it! 1 continuous followed by 3 short = no VGA detected. Matches up well with the fact the monitor had gone black for whatever reason. Sounds like a driver crash perhaps that didn't restore.

And the driver not restoring could be memory failure due to bad modules, memory/CPU/chipset/PCIe failure due to shot motherboard, or GPU failure due to sudden inadequate or dirty power. :|

Welcome to the land of I-don't-know-where-the-frick-the-issue-is. At this point, I'd be boxing up almost the entire machine for RMA. I'd be fresh out of patience.

[DeltrusDisc]

Doesn't RMA cost money to ship items back sometimes and/or lots of time waiting, like 2 weeks~?

[vesseblah]

Found it! 1 continuous followed by 3 short = no VGA detected. Matches up well with the fact the monitor had gone black for whatever reason. Sounds like a driver crash perhaps that didn't restore.

Try first pulling out the graphics card and reseating it. If the beeps come from BIOS/UEFI it's 100% certainly not a driver issue since the drivers are not loaded yet at that point.

If pulling out and plugging back in the card few times and into different PCIe sockets does not help, the card is probably broken.

[DeltrusDisc]

Well I said it only happened once when I tried just using the restart button on my case, but then after the beeps, I fully shut it down, then hit the power again and it booted up normally, save the typical "Windows didn't shut down properly blah blah" screen. Thus why I'm reluctant to believe any hardware is truly broken. I think I'm going to replace the PSU regardless, however.

[vesseblah]

If it happened only once, I'd just shrug and move on if there are no other problems. No point going hardware shopping if there's nothing wrong with the computer.

You really can not overload Corsair TX650 with single graphics card so it's very unlikely that it would be the cause of your problems.

[ComputerNerd]

While replacing the PSU it would not do any harm to try and re-seat the components such as the graphics card, RAM etc anyway just to be on the safe side.
It did at least from the symptoms appear to be a graphics card issue, but due to the problem having resolved itself then maybe it was just not detected correctly at that stage.