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JOEY5366   02-15-2012 at 04:01:37 AM
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I built a computer ( ga-ep35-ds3l; intel q6600; 650 watt power supply; 1tb hdd; radeon hd 5450 vid card; and 8 (4x2gb) 667 ram ). I turn it on everything comes on like the mobo lights and it make a long almost distorted beep and a sec later the led goes off on the mobo but the fans are all still running, i need help i have no idea what it could be, and there is never any video displayed on the monitor

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silverliquicity   02-15-2012 at 10:08:10 AM
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I once made a horrible mistake plugging a 6pin PCI power into the 4pin MOBO connector, i ruined a £200 MOBO. back in the day. =P

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JOEY5366   02-15-2012 at 04:28:56 PM
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i made sure everything was hooked up all leads pluged in and i there is still one long distorted beep and eveything shuts off except for the fans

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SAAIELLO   02-15-2012 at 04:40:50 PM
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Try just using one stick of RAM if it boots you may have a bad stick. I would try each one individually. Also if you have a motherboard with onboard graphics and you are using a discrete card try removing it and use the onboard.

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Rugger   02-15-2012 at 04:47:36 PM
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Try breadboarding: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/foru [...] _13_0.html with a minimum hardware config. One of the most common causes in a fresh install like this is actually unused motherboard stanchions under the mobo...

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JOEY5366   02-15-2012 at 11:07:27 PM
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I have never breadboarded and i will try but how do i figure out what the problem is once i do that

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JOEY5366   02-15-2012 at 11:29:57 PM
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does anyone know if any of the parts i put in are incompatible with each other

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JOEY5366   02-16-2012 at 02:30:36 AM
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i breadboarded it and still the same thing happens it turns on and makes a long beep and then the led lights on the mobo goes out but the fans are still running

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kajabla   02-16-2012 at 03:17:57 AM
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Read your motherboard manual to find out what one long beep means.

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JOEY5366   02-16-2012 at 05:36:41 AM
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That's what I did first but there is no error for just one beep its one one beep followed by more beeps. I think that it might be the mobo, I removed the bid card and same thing happened, I removed all except one and it still persists so I used another psu and it still continued so it's down to CPU or mobo

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kajabla   02-16-2012 at 05:54:51 AM
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All except one what? Have you tried different RAM?

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