I'd actually try reseating the CPU. Get some Arctic Silver at Radioshack or Best Buy. My son's had a similar POST problem, one time, and that fixed it.
How old is the Motherboard ? If it's a late 1990's-early 2000's era Motherboard you may have run into the notorious "bad caps (capacitors)" problem. Also do you have a UPS? I went through 3 computers before I bought a UPS; they would all get sick after one of the flickering lights power disturbances. Good luck. Keith Deterling [email protected] Advisory IT Specialist IBM Systems and Technology Group - MFG IT Infrastructure Services Essex, Junction, VT 05242 – Bldg. 975 – 2K0521 Tie-Line 8-446-3535 or (802) 769-3535 Pager 802-350-8771, [email protected] From: Anthony Carrico <[email protected]> To: [email protected], Date: 07/07/2013 10:33 AM Subject: motherboard Sent by: Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts <[email protected]> I have a sick desktop computer. It was working fine last power down, but won't power back up. It emits continuous beeps. The manual says: Continuous long beeps: Graphics card not inserted properly Continuous short beeps: Power error I'd say they are long, but it doesn't have an graphics card, just on board graphics, so that doesn't make much sense. MB GIGABYTE GA-MA69GM-S2H 690G CPU AMD|AX2 BE-2400 2.3G AM2 MEM 1Gx2|TRANS TX800QLJ-2GK I unplugged the drives everything. No change. I tried a different power supply. No change I blew out the heat sinks, slots, and memory sockets with canned air. No change. I tried RAM in the other bank. No change. I didn't try to re-seat the CPU because I'm not sure I can do that without unsticking the heatsink. Couldn't think of anything else. Any ideas? -- Anthony Carrico (See attached file: signature.asc)
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