PC Troubleshooting Help: Motherboard speaker and POST Card acting weird.

[jakelevi97]

Hi - thanks in advance for any help you can offer!

I've been having a battle with my PC ever since I installed some new RAM and an SSHD. I just bought a POST card and a mobo speaker to help diagnose it, and it's only made the problem less clear! The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-Z87M-D3H.

When I boot up, the fans all spin up, and the POST card's LED display shows 1519, followed by 0304 and then a brief flash of 1910. Every few second, the speaker sounds like it is trying to beep, but just 'clicks', sounding a bit like a cough (I've tried replacing the speaker, and same deal). After 1910, the fans slow down, the speaker coughs and then it starts again (1519, fans spin up fast etc)

It's got a Haswell i5 CPU, 2TB SSHD and 2TB HDD, and a 7770HD GPU. I've done all the normal troubleshooting stuff (I've removed every part and tried it etc). I've also done a full PSU test.


Any ideas? I'd really appreciate any help!



Thanks,

JL

 

[PCLAB]

This only happened after you changed RAM and SSD?
Have you tried your previous memory modules and one by one in diferent slots?
The speaker always make the same noise?

 

[jakelevi97]

The speaker always makes that weird cough - I've tried all the RAM sticks - I'll try them in all the slots though.
Thanks

JL

 

[jakelevi97]

So I tried removing all but one of the RAM sticks: I get about 5-10 new codes (too fast to read), the speaker beeps once and then I get the code A2A0, then A6A9, then the fans keep spinning with no other change. There's still nothing on my monitor (I tried a second one)

Thanks for the support

 

[PCLAB]

And only 1 stick, tested one slot at the time?

 

[jakelevi97]

Yep - I was still testing when I wrote that - another update here!

I tried one of the sticks and it booted - It now boots with all the RAM... I'm not going to complain.

However, it now says that there's no OS available (I have windows on my SSD, which it can see from the boot menu).

I'll keep testing and I'll keep you up to date.

Thanks again!

JL

 

[Altster]

Just in case I missed it....did you have an original boot disk before the SSD which you either cloned to the SSD or did a fresh install to the SSD? If you have the original HD (boot drive) have you attempted to boot from it? It's always a good idea to try and rule out anything and everything (including cabling) which could be causing the problems.

 

[jakelevi97]

So - Turns out it was the GPU! I took it out and all is good now however, I bought a R9 390 to replace it. Now, it doesn't boot into windows, and if I load up the automatic repair and click on 'advanced options' it takes at least 5 minutes to load the next screen...

Any ideas? I thought it was the PSU, but it's 700W, which should be enough, no?

Full specs:

1 DVD Drive
2 HDDs
1 SSD
4 sticks of DDR3 (28GB)
R9 390 Sapphire Nitro
i5 4670

 

[Markverhyden]

How do you know it was the GPU if you put in a new GPU and it still fails.

 

[jakelevi97]

While I was waiting on the new GPU, I used integrated graphics (worked fine, but I couldn't do anything strenuous)

The new GPU does goes into BIOS (and sometimes automatic repair) but doesn't really work.

 

[glennd]

So - Turns out it was the GPU! I took it out and all is good now however, I bought a R9 390 to replace it. Now, it doesn't boot into windows, and if I load up the automatic repair and click on 'advanced options' it takes at least 5 minutes to load the next screen...

Any ideas? I thought it was the PSU, but it's 700W, which should be enough, no?

Full specs:

1 DVD Drive
2 HDDs
1 SSD
4 sticks of DDR3 (28GB)
R9 390 Sapphire Nitro
i5 4670

Take out the R9 and run the motherboard on the integrated graphics. Get the thing booted into safe mode and uninstall all external graphics software and drivers and reboot a few more times. Then try installing the new graphics card.

 

[Markverhyden]

While I was waiting on the new GPU, I used integrated graphics (worked fine, but I couldn't do anything strenuous)

The new GPU does goes into BIOS (and sometimes automatic repair) but doesn't really work.

That only proves the integrated controller works. Does not prove the GPU is bad. Have you tried the GPU's in another machine? Do you have a known good graphics card to plug into the same slot?

 

[jakelevi97]

The GPU I just bought should be good - I don't have a third. The PCI slot could well be the issue though - it's an old PC, and the door is a bit battered

I don't have another machine to try it out on right now - I'll try and get a test in tomorrow.

Thank you so much for the help!