Bios won't boot no beep code

squammy2001

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I just ordered a mobo speaker so I turned on my PC but got no code. My bios won't boot up either because my keyboard does not light up when I press caps lock. I replaced my old motherboard with a new one previously because the old one wouldn't work. There is nothing on my monitors which leads me to believe it's my gpu that's bad. Would the bios not boot if I had a faulty gpu? I also had 2 sticks of ram on my old Mobo that I put on my new one. Would those be the problem? Seems wierd that both of my sticks would go out at the same time. Thanks.

Specs:

Hyper x fury ram 8gb 2x
Athlon x4 860k cpu
MSI a68hm-e33 v2 mobo
Radeon r7 370 MSI gpu

Edit: I have tried one ram stick at a time on multiple slots
 
Solution
If your old board refused to turn on, and the new one with the old CPU cannot post, I'd suspect the CPU was toasted along with whatever event occurred to the old Mobo.
Don't take this the wrong way, but do you have both rails from the PSU attached to your mobo? (One for board, one for CPU).
Make sure all your connections are seated in the correct position and tight.

-GL-

Jesse_20

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If you are not getting a post beep, take everything out of the build except CPU and PSU. (Unconnecting all Hard drives and other peripherals/gpus/add-in cards)
Try to Boot.
If you hear a series of beeps, then add the ram and retry booting.
If you do NOT hear beeps, then you have an issue with the mobo, PSU, or CPU.
After adding RAM, does the computer still beep? If yes, add another component, rinse, and repeat.
If after adding Ram (or another component), the beeping ceases to sound off, then you have isolated the problem to the last piece of hardware you added to the system.
 
With bad GPU, you usually get a beep code - either 'OK' or 'no/bad GPU'. With both RAM sticks not working, you would usually get 'no RAM' beep code. With no beep code at all I would be looking for motherboard or CPU fault. What happened to your old motherboard? How you confirmed it was motherboard and not something else that failed?
 

squammy2001

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My PC wouldn't even start with my old motherboard. With the new one it starts but won't post to bios so I know that the Mobo was bad. And I didn't get any beeps from the speaker after taking everything out but the psu cpu. I know the psu is good because I have two and I tested them. Is it more likely that either the cpu, brand new Mobo, brand new Mobo speaker, is broken? Thanks.
 

Jesse_20

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If your old board refused to turn on, and the new one with the old CPU cannot post, I'd suspect the CPU was toasted along with whatever event occurred to the old Mobo.
Don't take this the wrong way, but do you have both rails from the PSU attached to your mobo? (One for board, one for CPU).
Make sure all your connections are seated in the correct position and tight.

-GL-
 
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squammy2001

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Yea I think youre right. I do have all the plugs in. My Mobo speaker wires came off a few hours after i got it. lol. But I was able to test it before it broke. I'm gonna try to get a new cpu. thanks for the help everyone.