weird problem with asus mobo

[spikespiegel]

Hey guys, first post here; I'm having a weiird weird issue with my system:

Asus a8n sli mobo
amd opteron 170 cpu
2gb dual channel ram (2x1gb ocz)
ati 1900xt video card
thermaltake toughpower 750wat psu
2 hd's in raid 0 (400gb total)
2 hd's in raid 0 (1.35tb total)

Well, the computer started having issues at first with the ethernet card, it woudl sometimes not work, and after that, windows stopped recognizing it totally. Somtimes it would come back and ask for drivers, other time windows wouldn't recognize it. Until one day, i tried powering up the PC, and everything powered up fine, just my monitor kept blinking and couldn't show me anything at all.

I thoguht it was a mobo issue so I rma'd it with asus (3 year warranty) and they sent me a new one. Lo and behold, everythings popped in and the same problem happens except this time i get a beep sequence 7 beeps and the 2nd / 3rd beeps are faster beeps. I have NO clue whats going on; as b4 , there snothing poppng up on the monitor, it just keeps blinking on standby yet everything is powered up, mobo, vid card fan, etc. Any help appreciated greatly!!

 

[tzitzibp]

any recent software updates?

anyway, nothing you can do about it now!

try booting with just the essentials...

psu, 1x mem stick, only boot hdd, gfx, and no dvd, no extra cards !

and take it from there....

 

[suraswami]

Hey guys, first post here; I'm having a weiird weird issue with my system:

Asus a8n sli mobo
amd opteron 170 cpu
2gb dual channel ram (2x1gb ocz)
ati 1900xt video card
thermaltake toughpower 750wat psu
2 hd's in raid 0 (400gb total)
2 hd's in raid 0 (1.35tb total)

Well, the computer started having issues at first with the ethernet card, it woudl sometimes not work, and after that, windows stopped recognizing it totally. Somtimes it would come back and ask for drivers, other time windows wouldn't recognize it. Until one day, i tried powering up the PC, and everything powered up fine, just my monitor kept blinking and couldn't show me anything at all.

I thoguht it was a mobo issue so I rma'd it with asus (3 year warranty) and they sent me a new one. Lo and behold, everythings popped in and the same problem happens except this time i get a beep sequence 7 beeps and the 2nd / 3rd beeps are faster beeps. I have NO clue whats going on; as b4 , there snothing poppng up on the monitor, it just keeps blinking on standby yet everything is powered up, mobo, vid card fan, etc. Any help appreciated greatly!!

Instead of Standby try Hibernate. If its the same something is wrong with the ram, might be incompatible ram. Usually its a bios issue, so see if the board has the latest bios.

And oh, go into bios and load default settings and see if the pc behaves the same.

 

[spikespiegel]

iwould love to go into the bios; the only problem is, i dont see anything on the screen, my screen just keeps blinking after i get a weird series of 7 beeps...:shadedshu

 

[Ongaku]

That doesn't sound too good there...run memtest and test out your RAM

 

[suraswami]

iwould love to go into the bios; the only problem is, i dont see anything on the screen, my screen just keeps blinking after i get a weird series of 7 beeps...:shadedshu

oops, i am suspecting a dead proc there. Sorry man.

 

[spikespiegel]

hey guys, thanks a lot for your feedback; i had a question, since its an older rig, i dont' realy wanna put anything latest on it, i was wondering if this proc: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103289

would fit the asus a8n sli mobo (socket 939)

Thanks!

 

[OzzmanFloyd120]

No, that's a am2 processor, the board is 939.

 

[spikespiegel]

thats what i thought, thanks! Time to upgrade the system

 

[tzitzibp]

good luck with the upgrade!

have you decided what you are going for?