1 long and 7 short beeps

[V1tall]

Hey guys I have a msi 970 gaming motherboard and every time I turn on my pc I get not signal to my monitors and it gives me 1 long beep and 7 short beeps as you can see on this video https://vid.me/4AGx does anyone know what that means and how to fix this? Thank you

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Beep codes for MSI motherboards.

https://forum-en.msi.com/faq/article/bios-beep-codes

There's no code that's 1 long + 7 short... you might need/want to post this on MSI's support site. That said, nothing with 7 beeps is good.

Anyway; take out or uplug everything but RAM/CPU, plug a monitor into the onboard video, reset the CMOS, and try to boot it. If it works, add one component back in at a time until it breaks. If it doesn't work, it's your RAM, your CPU, or your motherboard. Start with new RAM.

If your computer was hit by lightning, just replace all three, and the PSU/GPU.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Beep codes for MSI motherboards.

https://forum-en.msi.com/faq/article/bios-beep-codes

There's no code that's 1 long + 7 short... you might need/want to post this on MSI's support site. That said, nothing with 7 beeps is good.

Anyway; take out or uplug everything but RAM/CPU, plug a monitor into the onboard video, reset the CMOS, and try to boot it. If it works, add one component back in at a time until it breaks. If it doesn't work, it's your RAM, your CPU, or your motherboard. Start with new RAM.

If your computer was hit by lightning, just replace all three, and the PSU/GPU.

And we bow-down and prostrate before the Great God UPS monolith. [So Sprach Zarathustra.]

 

[Micrornd]

YMMV, but that code used to be indicative of a video failure.
You might try reseating the video card or better yet substituting a different video card.

 

[RabidBadger]

So I have an MSI motherboard as well, and a GeForce 750 video card. I just got the same code error you did when starting up, but my video was still working after the fact. In fact, strangely, nothing seemed to be wrong at all. I did however notice an exclamation point by the driver app for my video card, it had missed a few updates. Installed them, restarted, and got no beep errors whatsoever.

 

[bononos]

I ran into a case where the motherboard manual gave the wrong info on the Award beep codes. Turned out that the generic beep codes were the right one.