990FXA-UD3 giving: 1 Long beep, 3 Short: "Keyboard error" ? wtf...

[MagnificentBeast]

Hey,

Gf spilled water on powered-on gpu, tried cleaning/drying and booting, 1 long beep and 3 short beeps. Took out gpu and trying to just boot the computer -> results in the same error code.

Did the water that definitely only got on the gpu somehow cause other harm? Thoughts...?
Ordered new gpu and fans. Fans arrived early, completely tore apart and cleaned my rig, tried with and without gpu, getting same error: 1 Long, 3 Short.

Tried removing both sticks of ram, tried each individually, in different slots.
Tried unplugging both hdd and ssd, tried booting with each one hooked up alone.

SAME ERROR, lol wtf.

Googled for a bit and found: Gigabyte Website: Mobo Beep codes, at the very bottom...

"1 long, 3 short: Keyboard error"

wtf... unplugged wireless keyboard, same Error beep code.

Tried without ram at all, obviously no good, continuous beeps, plugged 1 stick back in, right back to 1 long beep and 3 short beeps.

New gpu on the way and doesn't seem like that alone will be the fix...

Of course everything else seems fine...mobo problem?

Computer attempts booting 3 times (fan spin up and stop, respin, stop, spin) then the same beeps, 1L, 3S.

Help!?

 

[Shaun o]

Not every bios of a motherboard when it beeps relate to what part of the hardware or system is that has a fault on it.

You have to know exactly what brand of bios chip is fitted to the motherboard in order to find out what the error beeping codes are referring to MagnificentBeast.

I can tell you that with some brands of bios chips used on motherboards for example.

One long beep and three short ones after it , can mean no graphics card was detected in the Pci-e card slot of the motherboard.

If I had to be honest I would of tried the old Graphics card after drying it out in another system and a Pci-e slot.
To also either confirm that the card is also damaged. Or by some chance if it worked.

Then you would know it`s a new motherboard you need to buy in stead of a graphics card.


So it can mean the card it`s self is damaged, or the Pci-e card interface.
Or the motherboards Pci-e card slot is no longer working as it should.



Your best option was to try another Pci-e graphics card in the Pci-e slot of the motherboard as the next logical test to perform.

If it yielded the same bios beep code errors from the motherboard it would of told you the Motherboard was in fact at fault.

 

[MagnificentBeast]

Not every bios of a motherboard when it beeps relate to what part of the hardware or system is that has a fault on it.

You have to know exactly what brand of bios chip is fitted to the motherboard in order to find out what the error beeping codes are referring to MagnificentBeast.

I can tell you that with some brands of bios chips used on motherboards for example.

One long beep and three short ones after it , can mean no graphics card was detected in the Pci-e card slot of the motherboard.

If I had to be honest I would of tried the old Graphics card after drying it out in another system and a Pci-e slot.
To also either confirm that the card is also damaged. Or by some chance if it worked.

Then you would know it`s a new motherboard you need to buy in stead of a graphics card.


So it can mean the card it`s self is damaged, or the Pci-e card interface.
Or the motherboards Pci-e card slot is no longer working as it should.



Your best option was to try another Pci-e graphics card in the Pci-e slot of the motherboard as the next logical test to perform.

If it yielded the same bios beep code errors from the motherboard it would of told you the Motherboard was in fact at fault.

Thanks for the reply.

Well, I dont have any other cards but I did let the gpu I had (r9 270x) dry for 3 days, and I tried it in the second pci-e slot to no effect (which is actually where it was plugged in at the time...) so, I tried both pci-e slots and without the gpu and I'm getting the same error.

I dont understand how the mobo went down if that's the case. The water landed on the very outside of the gpu, as far from the mobo as you can be in my entire rig. And it didn't even travel, it just pooled in about the size of a dollar, but by the time I noticed it it was a turqoise/white powdery loonie sized mess.

I guess when the other gpu gets here on the 29th that'll be the definitive test as per the mobo.

Maybe it's beeping due to the bad gpu when it's installed, and beeping due to no gpu being found when it's out?

Fingers crossed