Hello all. This morning, after a long time of no problems, my PC decided to pack up. I have an Asus A8N-E mobo, AMD Athlon 3700+ cpu, 512mb DDR RAM, ATI Radeon x850 Pro PCI-E graphics card and a WD 320gb sata HDD running XP Pro. Ok, heres the story.. I left my PC idling on the desktop while I went to make a coffee, only to come back and find the bios logo screen with weird letters where they shouldnt be. I assumed that the PC restarted for some reason even tho I disabled auto-restart upon failure. I then restarted my computer and all seemed fine until I got to the log-on screen where it froze. I hit restart again and the screen went blank like usual but stayed blank. So I hit restart again and the PC did nothing at all. So this afternoon I fully stripped down my PC and cleaned it all out and put it back together. When I pressed the power button I got 1 long beep then 3 short beeps, after doing some research I found that it means bad graphics card or bad video ram. I then pulled out the video card and cleaned the socket again. Still same beeping. A friend of mine said maybe I have bad system ram, so I removed the DIMM and got a different beeping so that wasnt the problem. Then I stuck the DIMM back in and turned the computer on again and it went right through to the desktop then froze again, then same restart problems again. I have absolutely no idea what to try next.. Would a corrupt bios caus this? Help would be greatly appreciated. Thankyou.
sounds like overheating graphic card try a pci graphic card thats old but uses a different slot or try your graphic card in a different computer
I took my graphics card to a mates place and tried it in his computer and works perfectly. Looks like its a motherboard issue
