Pc failing to boot

[DeaconD]

yesterday had to move the case during the day the pc then was working fine last night

go to use it this morning turn on boots up sounds like the HD spins up and stops over and over followed by three beeps - fan slows down and hd sounds normal again - no display of any kind followed by a single beep and floppy drive to confirm its booted fine - fully took it apart and put it back together - same issue

My guess - the gfx has let out a war cry and died - swapped the ram about and ran it on half the ram no difference



Any ideas chaps ?

 

[Rubicon_]

The beeps you are hearing is an indication of a memory problem I think. Could be a number of things tbh, think its advised to check all the RAM sticks etc.

Edit - Just seen you've already done that my bad.

 

[Jon.G]

That should be a memory issue. Try taking all the sticks out and re-seating them. Very common for them to become unseated when moved. Also, try removing you GFX card and booting it. You may get a display error though, the error code could refer to memory on the GFX card.

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000996.htm

 

[welshname]

Sounds like a RAM error to me.

Those beeps clearly signal something though. If you check the MoBo website or forums they should be able to tell you what they mean.

 

[DeaconD]

Right then,

I fixed the issue GFX card but seemingly created another. The pc used to work in dual channel mode for the ram. Asus sli deluxe mobo.

Took ram out one by one same issue – I cannot find the option to force it into dual channel on the bios. What should i be looking for ?
The pc refuses to bo
ot into windows now – it crashes on the windows loading screen and crashes when i try and use any kind of bootfix utility before i can get into it (windows recovery for instance)

My guess is its down to the ram changing to single channel.

I want to get data off a old HD so thought if windows is borked i will just run a linux os (slax in this case) to get the info off from a bootable cd – it wont even run that :/ despite the two laptops i tested the cd in

Really not sure what ive done