Could a PSU failure cause this to happen?

[Starbuck1975]

I have a nearly two years old Enermax Liberty modular PSU. Tonight, while rebooting my system, I received a series of audible, consecutive beeps from my MOBO...my monitor remained in sleep mode and neither the bios nor the OS is kicked in.

I hit reset, same thing. Cleared the CMOS, same thing.

I posted over in the Abit forums, and someone there mentioned that a series of consecutive beeps almost always means a PSU issue.

I have read numerous postings of users complaining that their Enermax Liberty PSUs eventually failed over time.

What I want to confirm is this. When I turn on my computer, the fans all activate, the blue LEDs in my case come on, and the read lights activate on my CD-ROM and DVD-ROM...my system appears to be getting power, but the bios will not kick in. I have no way of entering the bios or booting up my system.

Given these circumstances, could this be a PSU issue? If so, how would I go about testing my PSU, as I don't have an extra PSU lying around to install on my current rig?

 

[Billb2]

The beeps are called "Bios beep codes". They help you identify the problem.
http://www.amptron.com/html/bios.beepcodes.html

I'm not aware of ant PSUs that beep when they fail.

 

[Starbuck1975]

Thank you for the response.

The beeps are definitely coming from the MOBO...the link you provided, are those universal beep code identifiers? If so, I will listen more carefully the next time I attempt to start my computer and determine which it is.

 

[MarcVenice]

Not universal, mobo's come with different kinds of BIOS, like Award is one for example, and Pheonix, and AMI is on that website too. If your mobo uses either of those then you should be fine. And I'm positive the beep codes will mean something like a dead videocard, cpu or perhaps ram, and not the PSU. Hopefully it ain't anything to bad, and you need a new CMOS battery or something. Or perhaps your chipset fan is no long working.

 

[PianoMan]

Originally posted by: Billb2
http://www.amptron.com/html/bios.beepcodes.html

Bookmarked! :thumbsup:

 

[Starbuck1975]

My MOBO is giving off one long beep, and two or three short beeps...hard to tell...but based on the link provided, this would suggest a bad video adapter regardless.

Safe to assume that bad video adapter means my video card died?

 

[Billb2]

Originally posted by: Starbuck1975
My MOBO is giving off one long beep, and two or three short beeps...hard to tell...but based on the link provided, this would suggest a bad video adapter regardless.

Safe to assume that bad video adapter means my video card died?

No, it just means the BIOS can't find it. Could be as simple as reseating it a few times, could be some incorrect BIOS setting, could be a power problem...or it could be dead.

The usual drill is to try another card in another slot/try another card in that slot/try that card in another computer....and on and on, until you can isolate the problem.

 

[Starbuck1975]

I spoke with Abit tech support. They had me reseat the video card in its current slot, but that didn't work.

When I moved my video card to my secondary PCI-E slot, it resolved the problem.

At this point, it appears that the problem is with my primary PCI-E slot. Abit suggested I send it in for an RMA.