4 beep, reboot...then repeat

[WorldConquest66]

Hello,

I recently started having problems with my computer.

It has
MSI mobo P67A-GD65 (B3)
i5-3570K CPU
Radeon HD 7700 Series
8 GB RAM

I booted up my computer and it booted for about 5 seconds, then restarted itself. After it restarted it self, it beep 4 times and rebooted. It keeps rebooting until I cut the power. I've looked everywhere for a solution but nothing helped me. I would very much appreciate any help. Thanks.

As a follow-up question to this, if I were to buy another motherboard, which would you recommend?

Edited to include video.
http://youtu.be/wiS0LkCIq9E

 

[tyflikw]

Have you looked at beep codes? 4 beeps can indicate system timer failure.

 

[WorldConquest66]

Have you looked at beep codes? 4 beeps can indicate system timer failure.

I saw that. I looked it up but I'm still confused as to what it means.

 

[tyflikw]

Easiest thing to check would be taking out one stick of RAM at a time. Sometimes a bad stick could cause it. Also easy is clearing your CMOS.

More annoying thing to try is replacing the battery. It could end up being a sign of a bad board.

 

[WorldConquest66]

I've done both of those things. Nothing's worked.

 

[WorldConquest66]

Easiest thing to check would be taking out one stick of RAM at a time. Sometimes a bad stick could cause it. Also easy is clearing your CMOS.

More annoying thing to try is replacing the battery. It could end up being a sign of a bad board.

I've done the RAM trick and clearing my CMOS. Nothings worked. I looked up the 4 beeps and it says it can be a bad motherboard on the site. That's what I'm thinking but I don't know for sure.

 

[tyflikw]

By the off chance do you have another computer you could swap parts with? Seeing if everything runs fine with a swapped mobo would really be telling. I know it would be a pain to do, but I'm all about exhausting options before buying new parts. Sorry I couldn't be more help =/

 

[carlo_bigtunes]

MSI mobo P67A-GD65 (B3)
to resolved boot loop is change bios to older one...
i have 3 motherboard p67 series with newest bios (UEFI) and it boot loop . after i change bios with eeprom it's work normal again.

 

[WorldConquest66]

By the off chance do you have another computer you could swap parts with? Seeing if everything runs fine with a swapped mobo would really be telling. I know it would be a pain to do, but I'm all about exhausting options before buying new parts. Sorry I couldn't be more help =/

Unfortunately, I don't. I have no way of testing it 🙁

 

[WorldConquest66]

MSI mobo P67A-GD65 (B3)
to resolved boot loop is change bios to older one...
i have 3 motherboard p67 series with newest bios (UEFI) and it boot loop . after i change bios with eeprom it's work normal again.

I can't get to the bios. It doesn't get that far.

 

[carlo_bigtunes]

it must be some people who have EEPROM bios programmer to repair that bios.

 

[WorldConquest66]

I opened an RMA with MSI as that's what I've found a lot of people did. Hopefully it'll be better.

Unfortunately, its out of warranty so they won't do it. I'll see if I can find someone to do a bios fix

 

[WorldConquest66]

Could it be that my mobo doesn't support the cpu? I ran across a thread about that but it was working fine with it prior to all this.

 

[tyflikw]

Not sure about that. MSI's page about the mobo lists your i5-3570k as a compatible cpu

 

[WorldConquest66]

Not sure about that. MSI's page about the mobo lists your i5-3570k as a compatible cpu

Thanks. I appreciate the help.