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[SOLVED] 1 long beep 3 short problem.

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Hello, people. I got a P5B Asus motherboard and everything was working fine until I normally did a shutdown on my PC and the next day it wasn't working. I had (and I still have) 1 long beep and 3 short beeps.

After I was searching for the problem and the beep codes' meaning, I found out that the problem is the RAM or the video card. I tried to reseat everything, including the RAM and video card, but still, nothing works. When I open my PC, it takes about 20 seconds without a beep and then the 1 long and 3 short appear. After a pause of 2-3 secs, I get another 2 short beeps.

The thing is that I can't understand how suddenly that happened while my pc was closed normally and was working without problem. Any advice that I can try more than reseating my video card or rams??

Thanks and sorry if this is the wrong section for such a thread like this.
 
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Another thing.. Each part of the hardware on the MOBO has it's own beep?? Or there's a beeper generally that beeps for any problem? I mean graphic card, ram, hard drive use 1 beeper in the MOBO or 3 for each part. Because in my case the beeps coming out from the hard drives even if they aren't wired...
 
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#30 ·
Well I know that. But with some more investigation people are saying that someone waited for the beeps and the keyboard to light up and he just pressed ctrl+alt+del and his PC restarted. Someone changed his MOBO and that worked. Another guy changed the graphic card and that worked. But those peeps the pc died while it was working. In my case I shut it down and the next day had the beeps. I don't even have a reason to say "that thing destroyed my pc". Why those machines are so f*cked up??
 
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#31 ·
Re: 1 long beep 3 short problem.

well most issues caused are basically down to human error for example:- using low quality parts like the psu for instance whilst it may seem economical at the time it could end up being very expensive, using low quality ram again this can cause all sorts of issues, not cleaning dust out of the system can cause overheating therefore damage. Not grounding yourself whilst working inside the pc can cause ESD and destroy components etc etc
 
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#32 ·
Yes, my pc had different mini issues though I could be happy if it was working and suddenly shutted down and never work than this thing happening now. I tried everything and nothing works out until I finish my exams in college and buy some new hardware. So there's no solution, just replacing the hardware. Anyway, thanks all for the replies and if I have any other question I may ask it here.

Thanks, everyone.
 
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