So I am putting together a computer myself for the first time, and after I got all the parts in, the machine will power on, the fans kick in, but it beeps twice and nothing appears onscreen. I've heard that it could be memory issues and such, but I've removed and re-added the RAM, still beeps, but now with one short and a short time later what sounds like 3 very rapid beeps. What do?
>MOBO - Asus M5A78L-M/USB3
>RAM - Crucial Ballistix DDR3-1600
>GPU - GTX 960
>PSU - EVGA 80 Bronze 600W
>Pic not my pc
Consult your motherboard manual.
It's not telling me anything that's helpful...nothing about the beep codes or any of that.
First reseat your RAM. Then just try one stick at a time and see if it boots that way.
If that still doesn't work, make sure you're providing enough power to your graphics card (all power cables are plugged in) and it's seated properly.
Then try to take out the graphics card and see if it'll boot from on board graphics.
>>963020
1 long 3 short is usually a ram error
>>963020
You didn't say what cpu. Thanks to the way asus and their vendors does business, it's possible to buy motherboards from them that doesn't support the cpu's that it supposedly should support; not without a BIOS update at least any ways.
The M5A78L is from 2012 and it's possible that it is using the original BIOS which means that it won't recognize any of the newer AMD cpu's released since then.
http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm
