- May 16, 2016
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I have an older AMD3+ PC with a ASUS M5A 78L-M LX mobo that I believe overheating about two weeks back while I was surfing online. The PC shutdown on me a couple of times so I opened the case and found some dust in the CPU fan, also two of the case fans inside had defected. I moved recently so might have jarred a bit while in car. After cleaning it out, I tried to turn back on the PC and received one beep, and then a string of 6 (or sometimes 7) beeps, and no display to monitor or bios load.
Did some research as my mobo manual doesn't list beep codes, and believe it has to do with CPU error/defective, prob from overheating. Tried re-applying thermal compound after cleaning processor/heatsink with solution, turned on PC and again the post beep and then 6 short beeps afterward, no display and no loading. I also disconnected the HDD and SSD, and GPU, and didn't find that any of these were causing an issue. Checked all connections, all secure.
I was about to try buying another CPU for about $80 but found a case fan I had bought previously and installed in in rear fan bay to help with extra cooling, turned on the PC, and now I get the one beep, and a single beep afterwards, which is maybe RAM? I have 2x2 GB ram and tried inserting just one of each in DIMM one and same issue, I get one beep, and then a second beep shortly afterward.
So now I'm not sure if my CPU is possibly bad, if I have 2 bad sticks of RAM, and why no display. I just bought a house so money is very tight and I'm not sure what component to replace, or what to try next. Any help would be appreciated so I don't go and buy one of everything when I'm not sure what the problem(s) are, or if this is even worth replacing. Thank you!
-Eric
Did some research as my mobo manual doesn't list beep codes, and believe it has to do with CPU error/defective, prob from overheating. Tried re-applying thermal compound after cleaning processor/heatsink with solution, turned on PC and again the post beep and then 6 short beeps afterward, no display and no loading. I also disconnected the HDD and SSD, and GPU, and didn't find that any of these were causing an issue. Checked all connections, all secure.
I was about to try buying another CPU for about $80 but found a case fan I had bought previously and installed in in rear fan bay to help with extra cooling, turned on the PC, and now I get the one beep, and a single beep afterwards, which is maybe RAM? I have 2x2 GB ram and tried inserting just one of each in DIMM one and same issue, I get one beep, and then a second beep shortly afterward.
So now I'm not sure if my CPU is possibly bad, if I have 2 bad sticks of RAM, and why no display. I just bought a house so money is very tight and I'm not sure what component to replace, or what to try next. Any help would be appreciated so I don't go and buy one of everything when I'm not sure what the problem(s) are, or if this is even worth replacing. Thank you!
-Eric
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