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POST problems or XP Stop 0x8E

Packard Bell 3 year old computer running MSI N1996 mobo. Intermittent problem with POST. When faulty 1 long beep and 2 short beeps. No screen display at all. Tried taking one memory card out at a time to see if one was faulty, but all seems okay. Points ot nvidia PCI-Ext graphics or power supply? Note, when XP boots and left on logon screen, after a while it crashed a couple of times to BSDO 0X8E error. Also wehen playing Warcraft game, machine freezes. Have played these games before.

Anonymous May 11, 2010

The steps I would take next are run tests on your memory and graphics card. If they do not pass the tests it could still be a motherboard problem, but worth replacing the parts that failed to be sure.
Anonymous Mar 25, 2014

beep 1 long and 3 short beep 1 long and 3 short

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Sounds like a problem with your memory. Download this free program to test your memory. http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Memory-Tweak/Microsoft-Windows-Memory-Diagnostic.shtml

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