Computer beeps 3 times when GPU display out is plugged in?

Matt_R

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Nov 20, 2013
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so my computer reciently stopped working, when i plugged in the speaker to my mother board it beeps 3 times then stops. I started toying with it and i had my motherboard cpu ram and gpu hooked up to my psu without my gpu's hdmi output being plugged in and it didnt beep, i thought it was working so i plugged the hdmi back in and expected it to work, i just got 3 beeps, i don't really understand how these two components react, any suggestions? to my knowledge its the motherboard not reading the ram because the same thing happened to me about a year ago and a new motherboard fixed it. any idea?

EDIT: im buying new parts tomorrow and i really need to nail the problem before then