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Computer won't boot up

Raiden333Raiden333 Registered User regular
Well, I've had my computer for about a year, and it's been pretty damn reliable, up until I shut it down last night. Now I can't turn it back on. The lights come on, all the fans start spinning, and it seems to be working fine, but it's giving me a repeating POST beep code of two 1-second beeps and a 3 second beep, in that order. But according to google, the POST beep code "2 short 1 long" doesn't exist, only 1 long 2 short. Any help?

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  • RNEMESiS42RNEMESiS42 Registered User
    Anything inside clogged up with dust? Can you see anything on the screen at all?

    my apartment looks upside down from there
    water spirals the wrong way out the sink
  • Raiden333Raiden333 Registered User regular
    RNEMESiS42 wrote: »
    Anything inside clogged up with dust? Can you see anything on the screen at all?

    I already tried clearing out all the dust I could see, and no, nothing on the screen.

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  • RNEMESiS42RNEMESiS42 Registered User
    Well, I'm in the same boat as you, heh. I'm going to take all the components out, and put them back in the motherboard carefully and surely...

    my apartment looks upside down from there
    water spirals the wrong way out the sink
  • brandotheninjamasterbrandotheninjamaster Registered User regular
    Those beeps sound like what I got when my RAM died. See if you can borrow some from a friend or something. When it happened to me I had 2 sticks die at the same time, so it could be possible that the same happened to you.

  • Raiden333Raiden333 Registered User regular
    Those beeps sound like what I got when my RAM died. See if you can borrow some from a friend or something. When it happened to me I had 2 sticks die at the same time, so it could be possible that the same happened to you.

    Man, I thought this might be it, but I tested every stick of ram individually (I have 4) in slot 1 and the same problem is still going on. And I can't imagine why all of my sticks would suddenly decide to die when they've been working fine for so long.

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  • wunderbarwunderbar Registered User regular
    Try some ram that you know is good.

    The motherboard might also be dead. The first sign I check for for a dead motherboard are swollen capacitors. If any of them are swollen at all that's pretty much a dead giveaway that your motherboard is dead/dying.

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