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Continuous short beep when start... no boot up, already change the power supply and few rams for testing, but no change. should the motherborad or cpu fail?

  • hk_leopang Jul 12, 2011

    there are all in one motherboard... So I can't remove the sound or graphic card...
    once removed all the Ram out and restart the PC... the outcome is also "Continuous short beep" happened. Seemed the motherboard was dead. The outdated CPU and Ram become rubblish... So sad!

    Thank you for all of you

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RAM sometimes simply are not compatible.try it one by one.trial an error.continues short beep is RAM error.try it..when try it dont connect your hard drive and cdrom.just let it boot to your bios if it works then that will be the time you connect your hard drive and cdrom.

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Processor failure does not produce beeping sounds, are you sure that your extra rams are working? try to change the video card if you have the removable one. then if you're using the built in video card, try removing the sound card and modem cards or lan cards.beeping sounds is only for ram errors and any other hardware but not limited to motherboards. by the way try to clean the slot for rams, video cards and others. this would help.

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You will need a large antistatic bag or antistatic mat plus a ground strap and a power supply checker.
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