Motherboard or Graphics card or BOTH broken?

Raphael_16 · Feb 12, 2017

So I was swapping my parts into a new case and in the process my motherboard (asrock z77 extreme 4m) got dropped 25cm onto my desk with cpu+cooler & old ram.
Now it will only boot with one new stick of ram the other new stick gets a 4 beep error and my two old sticks get the error too. My gpu fans do not spin on boot and I get weird grain/ lines/ artifacts when I boot. I dont know how I would figure out if my GPU(GTX970) is broken too as I dont have another desktop system to put it into to test.
any ideas and advice are much appreciated as I am very lost and tired right now.
Additionally for some reason in the windows 10 settings>>>Boot options it wont let me select to boot into BIOS/UEFI anymore(????)

thanks in advance.

proloser2 · Feb 12, 2017

I am by no means the ultimate guru as I'm only an IT student with limited experience, but here are some things to try and check that I have found from personal experience and a bit of googling.

Now, as a general rule of thumb, you want to be testing your system with minimal parts. Was your 970 working fine prior to swapping the parts around? If it was then it would be fairly safe to assume that the 970 is fine (as you didn't drop that) and you should remove it from your system to narrow down the issues.

You are trying the ram separately, one stick at a time?

Also, just to confirm: your PC actually successfully POSTing and loading Windows with the 1 stick of working ram, right? Do the artifacts only appear when you have your display hooked up to the 970?

According to Asrock, 4 beeps on that mobo means that there is a system timer failure (http://www.asrock.com/support/faq.asp?k=beep+codes), or according to this site (https://www.pctechbytes.com/hardware/bios-beep-codes-for-ami-bios-award-bios-phoenix-bios/), on an AMI BIOS/UEFI it could also mean there is a error in the first bank of memory- which would be a good explanation of why some of your ram sticks cause the beeps.

Try to narrow down the issue; see if you can get the PC to POST and boot without artifacts with your graphics card removed (connect your display to the mobo video output) and only one stick of ram (obviously the working one).

Also try clearing your CMOS (either by connecting the jumper pins if they are available on the board or remove the battery for about 5 minutes) and make sure the battery is properly seated in the slot. Clearing CMOS should also reset your BIOS/UEFI so you may be able to get into it.

Can't think of anything else at the moment, let me know if you make any progress or any of those suggests do anything.

Raphael_16 · Feb 12, 2017

proloser2 :

I am by no means the ultimate guru as I'm only an IT student with limited experience, but here are some things to try and check that I have found from personal experience and a bit of googling.

Now, as a general rule of thumb, you want to be testing your system with minimal parts. Was your 970 working fine prior to swapping the parts around? If it was then it would be fairly safe to assume that the 970 is fine (as you didn't drop that) and you should remove it from your system to narrow down the issues.

You are trying the ram separately, one stick at a time?

Also, just to confirm: your PC actually successfully POSTing and loading Windows with the 1 stick of working ram, right? Do the artifacts only appear when you have your display hooked up to the 970?

According to Asrock, 4 beeps on that mobo means that there is a system timer failure (http://www.asrock.com/support/faq.asp?k=beep+codes), or according to this site (https://www.pctechbytes.com/hardware/bios-beep-codes-for-ami-bios-award-bios-phoenix-bios/), on an AMI BIOS/UEFI it could also mean there is a error in the first bank of memory- which would be a good explanation of why some of your ram sticks cause the beeps.

Try to narrow down the issue; see if you can get the PC to POST and boot without artifacts with your graphics card removed (connect your display to the mobo video output) and only one stick of ram (obviously the working one).

Also try clearing your CMOS (either by connecting the jumper pins if they are available on the board or remove the battery for about 5 minutes) and make sure the battery is properly seated in the slot. Clearing CMOS should also reset your BIOS/UEFI so you may be able to get into it.

Can't think of anything else at the moment, let me know if you make any progress or any of those suggests do anything.

Yeah i tried all the ram one stick at a time and got my machine to boot to load screen, my 970 was fine as was everything else before i swapped it, i came to the samee conclusion earlier about the 4 beeps, my display has artifacts with the 970 but when i plug the hdmi into the onboard graphics the monitor gets nothing, am at work currently ill try clearing cmos and using a vga with onboard graphics later.
Cheers man

proloser2 · Feb 12, 2017

Raphael_16 :

All good man. Let me know how it works out

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