PC making long continous beep and wont start

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SPARTAN3444

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My PC refused to turn on today and I thought I had knocked out the power cable so I just took it out from the PSU and pit it back in. I forgot to flip the switch off but when I plugged it back in it started making a long continuous beep that I let go on for about 4 minutes till I decided to flip the switch off. I guessing the problem is internal, some piece of hardware preventing it from launching and that's the point of the beep. If you guys know it would save me the trouble of digging around test each piece to figure out the problem. On a side note I heard that some beeps the computer makes are error codes but this is a long continuous beep so idk
 
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It has worked before, just not today? Please provide your complete system specs, including the brand and model (not just wattage) of your PSU. How old is the system?
Is the continuous beep coming from the motherboard or from your video card? With power off, reseat your RAM, video card, and all power cables on the motherboard.
 
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yeah, i'd be making sure everything is properly seated. if something has knocked it hard enough to loosen the power cord then it's possible something internal has also become loose.
check memory, power connectors, heatsink, drive cables, gpu and other cards, and then try it again.

do you have a spare power supply you could test?
 
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SPARTAN3444

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You guys were thinking the same thing as me, something is probably loose so I'm going to open it up make sure everything is in correctly
Also I do have another PSU so I will test that if after checking everything its still isn't working. In response to others no this has never happen before first time, I don't think the age has anything to do with it as almost all the parts have seen different changes to them over time, I just can't buy that it is overheating because the last thing I did while on it was playing wasteland 2 which doesn't make my computer break a sweat so I just can't buy that its overheated but I will report back when I'm done checking all the parts
 
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Ok lads situation has changed. I opened it up and everything seemed to be in place, but then I had a weird idea that something was blocking like a fan or something so I left it open to watch and turned it on and now the long continuous beep has been replaced with 5 short beeps. Sadly I can't find my motherboard manual so I'm gonna have to some digging around
 
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sorry it has been a while but i think its been solved. So i coldnt find a manual but i had gotten the motherboard from dell so they told me what the beep code was. turned out to be a CMOS failure so i fixed the date on it but i didnt have another CR2032 so i put a DL2032, idk if it makes a difference but its running now do you guys no if it does? otherwise im gonna mark this as resolved
 
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