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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with AMD processors => Topic started by: jazzman831 on July 09, 2017, 12:59:54 pm

Title: GA-970A-D3P Beep Codes?
Post by: jazzman831 on July 09, 2017, 12:59:54 pm

I've got a GA-970A-D3P rev 1.0 that has been stable for over a year (after about a year of gremlins, finally tied down to an underperforming PSU). Only yesterday it started restarting itself randomly with no other symptoms. Eventually it got to the point where it won't boot, and I'm getting 1 long beep then 3 short beeps. I can't for the life of me find any documentation as to what this means. I've found a few posts for a different motherboard that says it's an AGP error, but (a) I don't know what that means and (b) I don't trust that the error code list applies to my mobo.

I'm going to start some basic troubleshooting later today, but I'm cramped for time so I'm hoping figuring out what the beep code means can speed things up a bit.

Title: Re: GA-970A-D3P Beep Codes?
Post by: dmdilks on July 09, 2017, 08:38:54 pm

GIGABYTE GA-970A-D3P (rev. 2.x) BIOS Beep Codes
BIOS Beep sound   Description
1 short beep   Memory Error
2 short beeps   Memory parity check error
3 short beeps   Basic memory 64K address check error
4 short beeps   Real Time Clock malfunction
5 short beeps   CPU error
6 short beeps   Keyboard error
7 short beeps   CPU interruption error
8 short beeps   Graphic card error
9 short beeps   Memory error
10 short beeps   CMOS error
11 short beeps   CPU cache memory malfunction
1 long, 3 short   Conventional/Extended memory failure
1 long, 8 short   Display/Retrace test failed
two-tone siren   Low CPU Fan speed, Voltage Level issue

Title: Re: GA-970A-D3P Beep Codes?
Post by: jazzman831 on July 10, 2017, 02:10:05 am

Thanks for that, I couldn't find it ANYWHERE.

Looks like I'm off to the store tomorrow to get another stick of RAM.