Motherboard POST beeping

Chris_N

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I'm having problems with my computer. It will turn on, but won't show any video and it does one short beep, and one long beep (In that order). My motherboard is an ASUS M2N68-LA. I contacted ASUS and they told me it was because it didn't detect my keyboard (I have it plugged in and fully functional, it's surely not that).
The BIOS is PheonixAWARD and I can't find a solution to this, can anyone help?
 
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Two short beeps usually means it can't find an attached hard drive. Make sure your primary boot device is connected. Also, try running only one stick of RAM for now until you know that isn't the problem. Make sure the RAM is seated firmly, it usually takes a lot more force then you would think.

Its not the keyboard. One short beep follows by a long beep indicates a RAM issue. Check in your motherboard manual.

Test to see if it works after each step
1) Check all RAM is seated properly. Nice and firmly/ clicked in.
2) Check each individual RAM stick one by one. You might have one bad RAM stick.
3) Reset CMOS/BIOS, again in your motherboard manual. Test with one RAM add more if ok.
4) remove all RAM, GPU, HD test to see if the beeps change.
5) Do this http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/faq/id-1753671/bench-troubleshooting.html
6) Might be a bad motherboard?
 


Two short beeps usually means it can't find an attached hard drive. Make sure your primary boot device is connected. Also, try running only one stick of RAM for now until you know that isn't the problem. Make sure the RAM is seated firmly, it usually takes a lot more force then you would think.

 
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