ASRock H77M, 5 beeps, no Boot.

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gwalter521

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The Mobo was working fine, but we did a PSU swap on the wife's PC since her's wasn't posting. (turned out to be a wiring issue, once I went back over my work it works fine)

So when we put the PSUs back in there respective cases, her's works, mine doesn't.

I get 5 beeps and nothing else. I don't think it's the CPU since we didn't touch it during the PSU transplant, same to be said with the video card. I'm sure it's just my faulty wiring job, again, but I'm unsure where I screwed up this time.



 
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One longer with 3 shorter means RAM issue. So it is clear now both modules are ok (Hopefully both modules would have been checked on single slot one by one). Check with other PSU. Once the physical damage is done it is done. Sorry for that but you would have to bear it.
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Ok this means your mobo timer is not operational. Pl check all the power cables plugged in the mobo for their correctness. Also pl ensure that your PSU is working properly. Presumably your PSU is faulty one, try to boot this system using some other PSU
 
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We used my psu to diagnose the wife's new pc (posting from it currently) and it worked fine. It worked fine prior to the transplant as well. So I doubt it's faulty. I'm not an expert but I think the power cables are correct (each cable is plugged into a port with matching number of pins/holes.)

I unplugged,replugged every cable and still no change.
 
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If you are still having 4 beeps, pl give a try with other PSU. Also remove the battery of the mobo, keep it out for some time and then plug it in.
 
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Helping my husband with the computer, I took out one of the RAM chips, and left the other one in, it booted without the beeps, so my guess is that it might have been an issue with the RAM?
 
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Ok then pl start using one RAM module at a time. Plug in one RAM start your computer. If it starts, remove the plugged RAM and plug in second module and start the computer. If it starts again then plug in both in DUAL CHANNEL and then try to start the computer.
 
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It boots with one RAM stick, but I'm curious to how the other RAM slot would die simply from having the power turned off. It worked fine up until we turned off the computer and took out the PSU to diagnose the wife's PC issue.

It wasn't doing this until we put everything back together and booted everything back up. That was why I was skeptical it was CPU since it wasn't touched since it was installed and worked fine to this point. We didn't put her PSU in the system (hers is 50w higher rating than mine) so it couldn't have been a surge or anything.

But I removed/re-installed it for kicks, and still no change.

It boots fine with just one RAM stick so I guess the issue's resolved, but I'm still rather confused how the simple act of removing the PSU would short out a RAM slot.
 
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Do you have two slots or four slots? How many RAM modules do you have? Pl provide this info along with mobo and PSU info as well. It could be either slot or RAM?

In various threads, I've emphasized the importance of PSU by stating that spending bucks on PSU is not a cost but an investment to safeguard the other components and system stability. PSU should be good.

Any fault with PSU or its cables, result would be damaging. Apparently you seem to be the victim of this thing. Anyhow nothing can be said for sure (Ultimate problem with remote troubleshooting).
 
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His motherboard has 2 DDR3 RAM slots. It's an ASRock H77M, and it's a micro ATX board. The RAM is G. Skill 16 GB... We tested both RAM chips in both slots, and unfortunately it seems to be the RAM slot on the board itself. As far as PSUs go, I could pick one up, and we can see if that possibly fixes the issue... The beeps seem to be one longer one followed by 3 short ones when both chips are in both slots....
 
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One longer with 3 shorter means RAM issue. So it is clear now both modules are ok (Hopefully both modules would have been checked on single slot one by one). Check with other PSU. Once the physical damage is done it is done. Sorry for that but you would have to bear it.
 
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