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PCMR Quiz: why PC is not booting?

connected to the correct connection? According to Asus this can be a one long and three short beeps too

Fans are good. And the beeps are really VGA.
Unfortunately i7-6700 doesn't work in Z390 and 9700KF doesn't have iGPU...
So could not troubleshoot that angle too much.
 
Nope, DP connected to the Titan Xp. Exactly as t was before.
Tried without connecting anywhere too.
Won't boot anyway, same beep code.



BIOS was reset multiple times.
Nope.
Did you flash install anything?

Can you view CMOS?

After flashing/upgrading software - I have wiped the actual ability for the GPU to communicate with the motherboard singularly - this requires a blind install of specific drivers as the GPU may be working, the software allowing it to communicate with the motherboard had to be installed with a black screen.
 
If you have the hardware on hand to start piecemeal swapping out pieces and testing viability, this would quickly surmount a solution for you, if you are stuck reverting/putting the part's together back in the old PC this process will be far slower.

Ram seems to work fine, 1 stick can obviously cause issues under the right circumstances so if you've already checked stick by stick - perhaps even go with a new set. Always worth swapping in a different hard drive and always worth checking each and every component piecemeal. Different PSU, Different GPU, Different Monitor, Different Ram, Different CPU, swapping out all of this with tested part's will of course point towards your motherboard being the actual culprit but that is a process.

And if you just so happen to in fact need a blind install of drivers, the process of swapping out part's piece by piece may prove fruitless. Typically only hardcore over clockers/enthusiast's would even need to do such a thing because they're the guys that will flash a system for peak performance even if it is strictly warranty prohibited, as example - realizing I had a gpu that could be flashed/turned into a better GPU as that skew simply had the hardware disabled on card I've flashed a ATI 9500 into a ATI 9700 - a generationally better gpu - tricky business and can cause the type of problem's you are dealing with, and can of course happen to a gpu on accident.

and if you removed the ability on your motherboard specifically, even harder to figure out and may still call for a blind install

One of these methods will surely work

Good Luck
 
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New mobo and ram usually wants a fresh OS but that shouldn't stop it from booting.... I really dislike how you keep me watching this stupid thread OP! Give us a hint already you monster!
 
Your monitor needs to be on before you power on the PC, your monitor being off is causing the beeps.

Not always. That setup was starting without turned on monitor just fined before upgrade.
But anyway: connected monitor or not connected monitor - same shit.
 
Oh if you've already figured out the solution that boils it down to an input device issue or some such, no need to return if you've handled it though
 
Long shot. Once had a new build that did not boot.

Turns out I had screwed in the CPU fan too much and was shorting out mobo.
 
Nope. It's way before drivers come to play.

Last thing then I'm going to bed :messenger_tears_of_joy:

Id take out the GPU and plug the HDMI into the MoBo to check if integrated graphics shows up anything. If I still get the same beep codes then the CPU hasn't been installed properly, maybe too much pressure from the cooler.

If I don't get the same beep codes with the gpu uninstalled and just using the CPU's onboad graphics then i would make sure that the PSU cables are correct to the GPU and change PCIE slots.
 
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Have you tried different RAM modules? Maybe the particular ones you have aren't compatible with your motherboard.

They are, otherwise the beep codes would be different.
And that mobo has memory "re-train" feature, it would give other indications of faulty modules.
RAM was fine.
 
Tried a different mouse keyboard? if you're stuck with the same part's you will not be able to adequately figure out what your issue is - and I think you said you've tried a different harddrive and different videocard


And the ram 1 stick at a time?

If you get more hardware to test against, hard drive, ram ect and this still pursues

then it's either a bad cpu or bad mobo if you're certain a blind driver install is not necessary.

It sounds like you've already maybe figured this out

I'm having a hard time understanding, are you saying you've solved the issue or not?

"Most of the time was spent on trying to troubleshoot it, but it was not the culprit actually. :messenger_tears_of_joy: "

Unless I guess if you mean specifically, you just haven't found the culprit
 
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and I'm having a hard time understanding, are you saying you've solved the issue or not?

The issue was solved much earlier today.
My point in this thread is to find out if people can find out in a sane time what could be the problem.
Exactly as I was trying hard earlier today.
 
The issue was solved much earlier today.
My point in this thread is to find out if people can find out in a sane time what could be the problem.
Exactly as I was trying hard earlier today.
Did you make sure all your USB ports were vacant? Nothing extra plugged in? Empty CD drives? Aside from that the only option would in fact be a new mobo/psu/cpu required.

if you in fact had hardware to test against, and the gpu was of course also plugged in to the psu ect
 
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