asus motherboard 1long beep+3short followed by 1long and 5 short

michealmikeyb

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Jan 7, 2015
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First specs:
mother board-Asus m5a97
cpu-amd fx 8350
ram-1x corsair vengeance 8gb+ 2x unnamed 4gb
graphics card-amd r9 280x
power supply -modular extreme 550w

So I tries to install a new graphics card and when I tried to boot it up it came back with 1 long plus 4short beeps with no display on the monitor. So I tried putting my old one back in and same error. I tried putting it in the other pci slot and still the same error. Then i tried reslotting the ram still nothing. Then I tried resocketing the cpu and while I was doing that forgot to plug the fan back in and booted, it turned on for a while with no beeps then turned off abruptly. For a couple of boot attempts it didn't beep then it started to beep one long then 3 short followed by a delay then one long then 4 shorts with a brief delay then a fifth. The cpu fan is still going so the gpu might be fine but I don't know, help please.
 
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One long and three shorts indicates your mobo wasn't detecting a VGA/GPU connection. One long and four shorts indicates your CPU temps were out of whack and/or there was a component failure. Single beeps indicate some other problem.

When you reseated your CPU and cooler, did you clean off the old thermal paste and apply new paste before reinstalling? If not, that would be a likely culprit for CPU temp, assuming the CPU is still good. I would get some thermal paste (online, local PC store, etc) and make sure that's done.

Assuming thermal paste and CPU/CPU cooler installation are correct, I would disconnect everything from your mobo except your DRAM, 8- and 24-pin power cables, keyboard and mouse, and plug your monitor into the mobo...
One long and three shorts indicates your mobo wasn't detecting a VGA/GPU connection. One long and four shorts indicates your CPU temps were out of whack and/or there was a component failure. Single beeps indicate some other problem.

When you reseated your CPU and cooler, did you clean off the old thermal paste and apply new paste before reinstalling? If not, that would be a likely culprit for CPU temp, assuming the CPU is still good. I would get some thermal paste (online, local PC store, etc) and make sure that's done.

Assuming thermal paste and CPU/CPU cooler installation are correct, I would disconnect everything from your mobo except your DRAM, 8- and 24-pin power cables, keyboard and mouse, and plug your monitor into the mobo monitor port (unplug GPU, hard drives, any PCI add-ons, etc.), then start it up and see if you get any beeps or if it boots properly.

Let us know what happens and we'll go from there. When you have multiple problems occurring at once, it's best to start from scratch and work your way up.


http://support.asus.com/pcassistant/pdf/BeepTable_en-us.pdf
 
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