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Asus P9X79 four short beeps
It began happening a few weeks ago -- I'd try to boot but before post
I'd hear four short beeps followed by the post chirp (different sound) and then nothing. But it was an intermittent problem and I let it go when rebooting seemed to solve things. Then yesterday the problem stuck around through several attempted reboots and I figured I'd better do something. So I looked up the error beep table on the Asus website and found nothing about four short beeps. Thanks, Asus. Then I branched out and learned Asus uses American Megatrends' AMI BIOS, and that four beeps mean System Timer Failure, which further means something's wrong with memory. That was when I actually looked at BIOS to see how much memory I had and I learned my four 8-gig memory sticks were producing not 32 gigs of memory, but just 8 and change. In other words, only one stick was working. So just now I removed all the memory and began replacing sticks one at a time. At first I couldn't get past the four beeps, but I kept replacing sticks in the D1 slot until one worked. (The manual says to put a single stick in D1.) Then I put a stick in B1 as shown in the manual and went right back to the four error beeps. But I persevered, removing and re-inserting, and eventually I had two working, then four, and now I'm booting nicely and BIOS shows total memory at 32 gigs and change. Funny things was -- the AIDA 64 Extreme system monitor software always showed four slots filled with 8-gig sticks. It saw them when BIOS didn't. Weird. But things are fine now. I think. Maybe I oughta run Memtest just to be sure... -- Bill Anderson I am the Mighty Favog |
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