[SOLVED] beeps

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nick3556

Discussion Starter · Jul 16, 2010

help, ive ran out of ideas, this comptuer im working on boots up, gets into windows, will sit there for 5-10 minutes before turning to a black screen and beeping at me (memory beep codes for no memory detected), turn off and back on and it will sit at a black screen with a blicking cursor, any suggestions

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Tyree

· #2 · Jul 16, 2010

Re: beeps

PC Specs?
PreBuilt--Brand name & Model Number
Custom Build--Brand & Model of Mobo-CPU-RAM-Graphics-PSU.
Try booting with ONE stick at a time repeating the procedure for each stick of RAM.

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nick3556

Discussion Starter · #3 · Jul 16, 2010

Re: beeps

same problem, with one stick, runs for 5-10 minutes, seems like it goes to sleep then it wont wake, after shutting it down, i get beeps again

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Tyree

· #4 · Jul 17, 2010

Re: beeps

PC Specs?
PreBuilt--Brand name & Model Number
Custom Build--Brand & Model of Mobo-CPU-RAM-Graphics-PSU.

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dai

· #5 · Jul 17, 2010

Re: beeps

what happens in safe mode

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nick3556

Discussion Starter · #6 · Jul 17, 2010 (Edited by Moderator)

prebuilt
HP Pavilion Media Center m8000 Desktop PC series

i ran a memtest 86 3.5 it ran the entire test on all memory sticks with out shutting down. http://www.memtest86.com/

but after test was finished i restarted machine and beeps again. then let sit for 10 minutes and booted fine, ran again in windows for 10 minutes until it went to sleep then would not wake, turned off and on, now beeps again

its confusing i cant figure if its OS, memory, or motherboard

let it sit in safe mode for a bit and then for a try i did a system restore back to the begining of the month, hit the desktop waited a while

STOP: 0X00000116

nvlddmkm.sys

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dai

· #7 · Jul 18, 2010

Re: beeps

download the latest video driver

in the device manager uninstall the video card
reboot tapping f8 and choose low resolution mode
when windows finishes rebooting
disable a/virus
install your drivers
reboot the computer

have you upgraded the video card since you bought it

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nick3556

Discussion Starter · #8 · Jul 19, 2010 (Edited by Moderator)

got into safe mode,
removed the driver,
rebooted and installed updated driver from nvidias site,
boots to windows, but now after a few mintues it will go into a sleep mode
but wont wake, reboot and beep, let sit for a bit and it will boot fine
until it goes to sleep

just a thought, i dont have another to test, but do you think it could be a video card going out, and could a video card cause memory beeps?

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Doby

· #9 · Jul 20, 2010

Re: beeps

Try 1 stick of ram but in different ram slots and see if you get the same behaivior. If it acts like that with ram in a certain slot and not another then you have a bad ram slot, if it acts like that in all slots then I suspect the motherboard we really do need the specs and it would be good to give us the voltages and temps from bios.

Some Abit boards awhile back acted like that when they were on there way out