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desktop not starting, no signal on the screen, 6 repeating "beeps"

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October 25, 2013 10:20:19 AM

Hi all,

I have an alienware Area 51 desktop (not the small one) with an intel x58 motherboard in it.

It has started crashing while i was playing League of Legends last week, so i updated my nvidia drivers (didn't change a thing) and i had managed to make my computer stop crashing by make my fans turn really really fast (it made really much noise), i also opened the computer to increase the air flow and opened the windows of my room because it's cold outside. Then it crashed again the next day but i had enough time to play for about an hour, while i couldnt the day before... And there it kept crashing and crashing again, it arrived at the password screen, and rebooted. Then it crashed on the screen where i need to chose between my ubuntu partition and windows (i have 2 hard drives). Now it just starts the fans (as it always does), but i get no answer from the screen and it does "beep beep beep beep beep beep" again and again (exactly 6 same beeps each times with a small pause before beeping again).

I have 3 4G RAM things (don't know the word there), i've tried starting my computer with onr thing of RAM at a time, to see if the problem came from that (i read that on a forum somewhere). But it didn't work anyway, so i think the problem comes from my motherboard.

Is that right ? Do you know what I could do about it ?

Here are the specs of my computer : cpu : i7 960, gpu nvidia 560Ti, 3x 4G RAM at 1600MHz (runs at only ~1033 though, i don't know why...), motherboard : intel x58 (never found the exact name if it has one), don't know if there are any other things you might need to know, just ask i'll try to find it.

Thanks for you help guys :)  i appreciate

Billy

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October 25, 2013 12:26:17 PM

according to the beep codes for alienware desktops, 6 beeps is for a bad videocard, which explains why you are getting no video. try reseating the graphics card in its slot, and make sure the power connecter to it is secure. If that doesnt fix it you probably need a new card.
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October 25, 2013 12:30:47 PM

Try borrowing a graphics card and test.
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October 25, 2013 12:35:54 PM

velosteraptor said:
according to the beep codes for alienware desktops, 6 beeps is for a bad videocard, which explains why you are getting no video. try reseating the graphics card in its slot, and make sure the power connecter to it is secure. If that doesnt fix it you probably need a new card.


Hi velosteraptor,
Thank you for your answer.
Are you sure it's the graphics card ? I had video on the first crashes, although i remember i sometimes had black screen for about 2 seconds and then the image came back, and a small message popped telling me something like "your graphics drivers crashed but windows managed to relaunch it". It's the second time i'm having issues with my computer. Last time i just had it cleaned and it somehow solved the problem, it was about 6 months ago.
Thanks again for your help :) 
Billy

Edit: Oh yeah.. You're right, here's the website http://www.dell.com/support/troubleshooting/us/en/19/KC... the 6 beeps mean video card failure, I'll try to borrow one, as alexoiu said, or i'll directly buy one.
Thanks :) 
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