Oh What a Pickle!!!

[pompeyboy]

Hi all,

I’m new to this Forum and could do with some of your amazing support :)

When I power up my PC it switches on for about 3 seconds and then switches off. After that a series of 4 beeps can be heard. The beeps are not long just short shard beep, beep, beep, beep (darn beeps).

After some research 4 beeps meant there is a system time failure. So I tried all the usual, disconnect everything, unplug SATA, take out PCI cards RAM, VID card and start from scratch. Well to cut a long story I have tried it all and its still doing the same. I even looked at the cpu and there is plenty of grease still on it, so I assume its not been overheating, also my comp always feels cold in the case.

I have noticed though a solder type smell coming from around the PSU/CPU area, so I changed to power supply and tried again but to no avail. I have even re-set the bios by taking the battery out (making sure to be careful of ESD). So there u have it, I guess the CPU or mobo is dead.

Is there anything else I can do, or can it be something really simple that I’m missing?

Thanks so much for your time; any advice will be much appreciated

Pete

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[Guest Wolfeymole]

Hello Pompeyboy

 

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Well if you have an AMI bios then that would be true but there are two aspects, to quote;

 

4 short: System timer failure The system clock/timer IC has failed or there is a memory error in the first bank of memory

 

 

To me it sounds like the board is dead when you mention the smell but you could try some fresh memory.

 

[steveie85]

Maybe running Memtes86 would be best to tell us if there is RAM issue. Its free and will show exatly how many, if any errors at all.