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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: lowaaa on December 21, 2016, 12:14:36 pm

Title: Constant beeping, no response on monitor.
Post by: lowaaa on December 21, 2016, 12:14:36 pm

My motherboard is the Gigabyte G1.Sniper M3.

I just had installed a new graphics card, the GTX 1060 6GB Strix. I start up the computer and all I hear is the beep for the computer system starting up. Then five beeps go in, and then the monitor goes off, after the monitor is off there are 3 more beeps after this and then nothing at all after a minute and the computer turns off instantly by pressing the power button. There are red lights at the back of the graphics card, but when I had spoken to the Geforce Live chat team, they said it was fine and the five beeps meant there was an issue with the CPU. I was told to contact Gigabyte first, but what they assume is wrong is that theres too much dust in the CPU. I had attempted to contact Gigabyte, but when clicking continue on their tickets it directs me to a whole different page.

I had taken the cpu out, and cleaned the fan, the fan was rather dusty but i don't think this was the issue. After placing the whole cpu back ( I had not taken out the chip itself.) I saw a video about someone cleaning their chip with 91% alcohol tissue kind of thing, I don't have that just laying around so i thought i'd just try cleamning the fan only. i place everything back and then I see a issue, when the computer starts up, I notice the fan struggling to spin, it does one or two mini spins (About 20-30* angle turn) and then it completely spins after that and doesn't have any issues. When the computer starts up, I notice that the same beeps occur.

I really don't know what to do about this issue, maybe I have to clean the chip with the 91% alcohol wipe thing? But when I place my old graphics card back into the computer, the computer boots up perfectly?

Title: Re: Constant beeping, no response on monitor.
Post by: shadowsports on December 21, 2016, 07:29:44 pm

I think the issue is video related, not your CPU. 

Please provide your complete system specs.

What is the brand / model of your PSU? 

Did you have proper power connected to the new card?