I think my A8N-E broke

[AznKwaiJai]

When I woke up this morning, I quickly turned on my computer. I walked away then came back to see it was stuck on the "hit delete to go to setup" screen. I hit delete, nothing happened. So I restarted the comp, but this time it just beeped at me continually in a "beeeeeeeeeeeeeep beep beep beeeeeeeeeeeeep beep beep" tune and repeats. The creep did not post, just a blank screen. This happened before, last time I just shutdown the comp and started up and again and it would go away. This time it didn't. I thought it was the ram, so I swapped it and still the same beeping tune came with no posting. I didn't install anything critical that would affect bootup. Clearing cmos did nothing. I also switched the ram and still nothing. Anyone got any other ideas. Also thinking the mobo may be dead some how.

 

[erikistired]

that's video i believe. i'd have to look it up tho, haven't done bios codes in awhile.

1 long, 2 short Indicates a video error has occurred and the BIOS cannot initialize the video screen to display any additional information

 

[AznKwaiJai]

Thanks, does that mean the video card is fried?

 

[erikistired]

possibly? it's hard to say for sure without doing some testing. do you have another video card you can try?

is the fan still spinning on it?

 

[AznKwaiJai]

Interesting, I called asus and they said it is the memory. One long and two short is ram. He also said that it can also be the memory controller on the cpu.

 

[AznKwaiJai]

Update. I just unplugged my video card and ram and plugged them back in. Now all is well, lets just hope that this won't happen again.

 

[erikistired]

cool glad to hear you have it working.

historically for award bios boards 1 long and 2 short is video. perhaps reseating it fixed it.