Possible dead motherboard? Or something else?

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lexcruiser

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My BIOS is AMI and I've been experiencing between either 3 quick beeps or 4 quick beeps on bootup. The 4 beeps usually happen after clearing the CMOS and booting up, the 3 beeps happen every time I boot up after that. Stii no boot up and no video.

I've tried re-seating memory, vid card and CPU. It *did* boot up OK a few times after clearing the CMOS but not anymore. I've already tried using brand new mem chips so I dont think its the RAM. I dont think its the vid card either since that worked on bootup a few times....

Right now, I'm guessing its the mobo since 3 or 4 beeps seem to indicate a possible mobo problem according to the error beep codes.

Any other suggestions before I go ahead and buy a new motherboard??

Thanks in advance!! :(

Specs:
Asus P5AD2 Deluxe
P4 3.0ghz
1.5gigs DDR2 533mhz corsairs
Radeon x800 xt
 
lexcruiser said:
Aside from the PSU and Mobo, does this sound like it could be the CPU or vid card?
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well the best way to find out is to try other components.. try any vid card.. as for the CPU being a problem - I don't think so.. but again - you should check it in different mobo to make sure..
 
Looks like a toasty mobo. Although I've seen strange things happen with a bad power supply. You might try swapping that out first before replacing the mobo.
 
Mister Natural said:
Looks like a toasty mobo. Although I've seen strange things happen with a bad power supply. You might try swapping that out first before replacing the mobo.
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Yea... thats what I was thinking as well. =T
Mobo was only 3 months old.. Any idea what might cause a mobo to fail like this? Or specifically, what might cause that system timer failure? I ran Memtest86 prior to this happening, can a memory stress test program kill a mobo like this?? :mad:
 
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