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2 Post Codes upon boot after a normal shutdown

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March 28, 2014 2:15:57 AM

I have a Gigabyte 890FXA-UD5 (rev2.1) with an AMD 1090T 3.2GHz Black CPU, 4 Kingston 8GB RAM sticks (2 KHX16C10B1K2/16X kits), A Geforce GTX 780 video card, 4 Hard Drives, 1 Solid State Drive (Boot Drive) and a Thermaltake Toughpower 1200W PSU.

After a normal shutdown in the morning, I tried to restart the system in the afternoon and got two post codes.

First code is 4 Long Beeps and 1 Short.
Second code is 11 Short Beeps.

The only trouble I've had in the last 6 months has been the odd BSOD with no warning or regularity. A Restart normally fixed that.

I believe that the local humidity may have caused this problem as there has been a lot of rain in my location for the last week, however I would like to know what the POST codes mean before I go to far in ripping the system apart and trying to find any problems.

Regards Brad

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a b V Motherboard
March 28, 2014 2:46:26 AM

Well the four long and 1 short are in relation to memory, or memory dimm module checking.

So check each memory stick is seated flush in the slot.
Also check the two memory modules are inserted in to the correct slots for maximum compatibility. Gigabyte boards can be fussy in respect to this.

And lastly the memory may be overclocked, and the bios at post cannot read it.
Or the speed, or timing settings are wrong.

10 or 11 beeps mean there is a power Issue, It would lead me to have a poke at the memory.

In respect to being seated right in the slots or there positions in the four slots provided.
As a note just check the voltage is set right in the bios for the memory modules along with the timing values, and speed.

Make sure Xmp mode in the bios is enabled if the memory sticks require it.

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March 28, 2014 3:06:06 AM

Shaun o said:
Well the four long and 1 short are in relation to memory, or memory dimm module checking.

So check each memory stick is seated flush in the slot.
Also check the two memory modules are inserted in to the correct slots for maximum compatibility. Gigabyte boards can be fussy in respect to this.

And lastly the memory may be overclocked, and the bios at post cannot read it.
Or the speed, or timing settings are wrong.

10 or 11 beeps mean there is a power Issue, It would lead me to have a poke at the memory.

In respect to being seated right in the slots or there positions in the four slots provided.
As a note just check the voltage is set right in the bios for the memory modules along with the timing values, and speed.

Make sure Xmp mode in the bios is enabled if the memory sticks require it.



Checked, removed and re-seated the four RAM sticks. Prior to the problem, the RAM was running at the automatically detected timing and voltage settings. At the moment, I can't even get into the BIOS to check for any changes.

Also checked the PSU power with a power supply tester and it came up good.

Regards Brad

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a b V Motherboard
March 28, 2014 3:11:56 AM

Then only place one ram stick in a slot at a time.
Power the system on and see if it boots.

Test each stick on its own if you have not .
To check if the cause is a faulty one.
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