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HELP! My computer will not boot.

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Jaimin

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I have an AMD 1.4 ghz on a epox 8k7a with an aiw radeon, 256 mb, generic nic ( no other pci cards). Last night I was watching a divx movie of a cdrom and then all of a sudden my computer blue screens. Shortly after it resets automatically and then stalls. I restarted once, got into the bios, try to change stuff, but when I rebooted it just stalled, blue screened, and then reset. Shortly after that the computer wouldn't even post, all that would happen is that the pc speaker would produce beeps every couple of seconds until I turned off the computer. I tried pulling everything off the mobo, even the ram, and this beep still occured, I also tried a bunch of combonations with my ram, nic, and video all to no avail. Can anyone help? The manual does not have a troubleshooting section, so I don't know what the error beeps even mean. Thanks for any help.
 
You would have to bare the system, meaning video card and a ram only and you should at least see the system post. If the system would not post clear the bios. Try again. If the system still would not post then you will have to try another PSU. If the system still would not post get a new mobo or find out if you can flash the bios using the bootblock method. Not all mobo are capable of this so you need to check with the mobo maker.
 
Thanks for the quick replies. I don't access to any spare parts so that hinders me a lot, but I did try to boot with only video and ram. Nothing would come up on the monitor and the pc speaker from the case would just beep. Does anyone know what that beep means? Also I already cleared the CMOS and it also did help. Most likely I am gonna have to get a new mobo, I just hope that I picking out the correct bad part. Can anyone recommend any kt266a or sis735 with on board sound and that fit a alpha pal 8045. I wanna try and fix this problem as soon as I can. Thanks again guys.
 
Anybody you know could let you borrow a stick of ram? if its three long beeps... I think it indicates either bad ram or unseated ram...
 
Actually it just doesn't stop beeping until I turn off the power. Does that mean anything specific, also does someone maybe know a link to where I can find what the error codes mean, epox's site is terrible and I couldn't find a phone number either.
 
What kind of beeping is it doing, usually it beeps in a "pattern". Like 3 short beeps then a pause, 3 short beeps then a pause. Etc. Listen to the beeping see if there is a pattern, then dig out your motherboard manaul and flip to the section in the back where it lists the different beep codes and what they mean. Usually if it gets up far enough to beep, it is either the memory or the graphics card. Since you were last using the graphics card before it went south I would guess something happened to that component.

After about 2 minutes of surfing Epox's homepage, here is the link to their motherboard manual page. Your's is listed near the top there. It should have the definitions for the beep codes in it. I have left that to the end user to research and verify though. 😛
 
I don't know if the EPOX has a CPU fan shutoff, but you might try a different fan connected to it if you have one.
 
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