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So here it goes. I built my first PC last night (or at least tried to) with my best friend who had also recently built his first to have it get stuck with a very frustrating problem. The first time I tried to POST I had installed everything; the gpu, cpu, heatsink, additional fans, ram, and all I had left to do was to put the side panels back on and it would be good to go. I pressed the power button and all of the leds and fans came on and everything physically looked like it was right, but there wasn't a POST. It wouldn't display anything. At this point I didn't have the system speaker installed because I totally forgot about it so I thought it might be the gpu so I switched it out for a 1070 my friend had brought. Despite what gpu I had in there, whenever I plugged either an hdmi cable or dp cable into them the monitor would flicker like it registered the action of plugging it into the gpu, but when I tried to turn it on nothing came up.
I then looked online to see what the problem could be and read about the system speaker so I installed that right away. I turned it on again and the lights and fans starting whirring once more, but the speaker started beeping it sets of 3. The first set that comes out is 2 beeps followed by one that sounds interrupted and then after that first set they are just the same beep in sets of 3. I took to the internet once again (found very many helpful articles on this site, thanks!) and found out that my mobo has Award bios and referenced their beep meaning. Being a new computer builder I'm still not entirely sure if BIOS beeps are supposed to repeat and you identify them by the amount of beeps between a pause or if one set of beeps is all you're supposed to get. That being said, 3 beeps with Award BIOS is supposed to indicate a memory issue and continuous beeps means that the cpu is over heated. With this information I reseated my ram to no avail, then I tried each individual stick on its own in DIMM 1 also to no avail, then I read here about breadboarding. I began like the poster said with just the cpu and heat sink and I still got the same 3 beep looping code. That was VERY early this morning and I figured it would be better to try again with some sleep in me so here we are. I was very conscious about static with the use of an anti static wrist bad, no socks, and a wooden table and floor. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!
So here it goes. I built my first PC last night (or at least tried to) with my best friend who had also recently built his first to have it get stuck with a very frustrating problem. The first time I tried to POST I had installed everything; the gpu, cpu, heatsink, additional fans, ram, and all I had left to do was to put the side panels back on and it would be good to go. I pressed the power button and all of the leds and fans came on and everything physically looked like it was right, but there wasn't a POST. It wouldn't display anything. At this point I didn't have the system speaker installed because I totally forgot about it so I thought it might be the gpu so I switched it out for a 1070 my friend had brought. Despite what gpu I had in there, whenever I plugged either an hdmi cable or dp cable into them the monitor would flicker like it registered the action of plugging it into the gpu, but when I tried to turn it on nothing came up.
I then looked online to see what the problem could be and read about the system speaker so I installed that right away. I turned it on again and the lights and fans starting whirring once more, but the speaker started beeping it sets of 3. The first set that comes out is 2 beeps followed by one that sounds interrupted and then after that first set they are just the same beep in sets of 3. I took to the internet once again (found very many helpful articles on this site, thanks!) and found out that my mobo has Award bios and referenced their beep meaning. Being a new computer builder I'm still not entirely sure if BIOS beeps are supposed to repeat and you identify them by the amount of beeps between a pause or if one set of beeps is all you're supposed to get. That being said, 3 beeps with Award BIOS is supposed to indicate a memory issue and continuous beeps means that the cpu is over heated. With this information I reseated my ram to no avail, then I tried each individual stick on its own in DIMM 1 also to no avail, then I read here about breadboarding. I began like the poster said with just the cpu and heat sink and I still got the same 3 beep looping code. That was VERY early this morning and I figured it would be better to try again with some sleep in me so here we are. I was very conscious about static with the use of an anti static wrist bad, no socks, and a wooden table and floor. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!
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