Which bit of my computer is dying?

Post by **Dog Pants** » April 21st, 2009, 11:18

I don't think every BIOS does that. I can't remember mine doing that either, although I might just be so used to it that I felcher it out.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » April 21st, 2009, 11:23

Or you forgot to plug the buzzer in

Post by **HereComesPete** » April 21st, 2009, 12:54

I didn't plug mine in, I use the led display on my mobo to tell me if anything has gone wrong. Shame it uses a single double digit code for about ten different problems. Good that it hasn't fallen over once yet.

Post by **TezzRexx** » April 21st, 2009, 13:04

Have you made any changes to the BIOS in the past 6 months?

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » April 21st, 2009, 13:21

TezzRexx wrote:Have you made any changes to the BIOS in the past 6 months?

Baliame wrote:. I reduced the CPU speed, see if it helps, but the lockups still occur with the same frequency.

Baliame wrote:I was overclocking my CPU and GPU, resetted CPU to stock speed earlier. GPU's still clocked, should I reset that as well?

On balance, I'd say probably yes.

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » April 21st, 2009, 14:23

For the record, it used to do the single beep, it definitely did it 2 weeks ago.

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Dr. kitteny berk wrote:On balance, I'd say probably yes.

Baliame wrote:EDIT: In fact, it's not, Catalyst seems to have reset it years ago.

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I did a few memtest iterations on the second socket, and one of the cards got the errorz lockup. I replaced that card into the first socket and got an error after a few iterations as well. Didn't get any errors for the other card, therefore it was that RAM.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » April 21st, 2009, 14:36

Baliame wrote: I did a few memtest iterations on the second socket, and one of the cards got the errorz lockup. I replaced that card into the first socket and got an error after a few iterations as well. Didn't get any errors for the other card, therefore it was that RAM.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » April 21st, 2009, 14:43

Woo for solving it.

Post by **TezzRexx** » April 21st, 2009, 14:51

Fucked up slot then?

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » April 21st, 2009, 14:59

TezzRexx wrote:Fucked up slot then?

if only one stick of memory is crap in 2 slots, the memory is crap.

Post by **TezzRexx** » April 21st, 2009, 15:03

OH!

This place is frying my brain.

EDITZ: this place being work, not 5punk

Post by **deject** » April 21st, 2009, 16:04

oh hey look, berk called it right away, followed shortly by confirmation from me.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » April 21st, 2009, 16:09

we don't really need a hardware forum, just a sticky that says do memtest.

save me a lot of time

Post by **HereComesPete** » April 21st, 2009, 18:18

Have you tried memtest?