Radeon HD 7870 causing beeps randomly on startup

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Sometimes, when I start-up the pc from shutdown it will give me 1 long beep and 3 short beeps. This only happens when booting up from shutdown and not from sleep. The monitor doesn't get a signal and I have to hold the power button to shutdown and then boot up again to get through. I have determined it is caused by the gpu because I was able to get the same beeps again when I tried booting up without plugging in the pci express cables. Once I get past post beep, everything works until I startup the next day and I may or may not get the beep problems again.

I have already tried

Reseating the gpu
Uninstalled and reinstalled latest non beta and beta drivers
Cleared CMOS
Ran memtest with no errors

I also want to point out that it is always clocked at 1200 for the memory clock to prevent screen flickering problems while watching youtube or playing low requirement games.

Win 7 64 bit
FX 8320
Radeon HD 7870
8 gb ram
Gigabyte 970a-ds3
 
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You can't really reset a GPU. It's hardware and nothing you can change on the board. Any changes are are done thru software which would be Overclocking and Underclocking. What do you mean you tried booting up without the PCI-E cables? You mean you didn't give it any power except what it was trying to draw from the PCI Bus?

 
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Yes, I unplugged the cables and attempted to boot up and it gave me the same beep codes. That leads me to think that its a gpu problem. I am considering of getting a evga gtx 660. I have seen other people with this problem and the only solution for them is a new gpu. This happens only on cold boots.

This person has the same problems as I do.
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/283730-30-asus-p7p55d-random-boot-issues
 
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Just cause somebody had a problem that's close to yours doesn't always mean his solution is gonna be the same as yours. Put it in another system to test it out before you spend money that you didn't need to.
 
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Random beeps? Look up "beep codes" and you find out that this "random" sequence means "no video."

If the GPU randomly fails to initialize from cold-boot, it is likely you have a power-up sequence issue... your PSU's 12V rail might not be rising fast enough or clean enough to keep the GPU happy and the GPU cuts off.

What PSU model do you have and how old is it?
 
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What I meant by random beeps is that the problem happens randomly when I boot up from a cold boot. Sometimes I can go for a couple of days without any issues. I hope this issue wasn't caused by me having to keep the memory clocked at 1200 at all times to prevent screen flickering. It's a issue with the 2D clocks.

PSU http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817153167
 
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I had a problem with one of my builds that when I did a reboot say after updating windows I would get a BSOD after sometime of being in windows but after that restart it could run for days on days until I restarted again. Can't remember what I did but I was able to fix the problem and it wasn't buying new hardward. Well you know if you OC'ed your card it's not always a 100%, some batches are good while other's not so good. However I'm still gonna tell you the same thing and test it out in somebodies other system with the same OC and see how it goes.
 
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It's not a OC, it's actually clocked at the highest memory clock it was originally set to. I just leave it like that to prevent the memory clock from jumping around from 300 to 1200. I can get a 7770 to test, would that help determine the problem?
 
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