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GA-880GA-UD3H Beep Codes

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GA-880GA-UD3H Beep Codes
« on: March 04, 2011, 06:11:33 am »
Hi --

System was just purring along, no sweat.  Then, I get a buzzing from the speakers, and absolutely no response to anything.  

I do a reset.  Beep codes.  2 long, 1 short.  Repeatedly.  (As shown in attached Audacity snapshot.)

Tried resetting the video card.  Tried just unpowering for awhile, and resting.  

All the fans, drives, led's, and so on seem to be going. 

No video whatsoever, so can't get into BIOS.

Not sure what to try next, so here I am.   :'(

Any thoughts?

Thanks...

« Last Edit: March 04, 2011, 06:15:21 am by KEP »
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Re: GA-880GA-UD3H Beep Codes
« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2011, 06:28:48 am »
Proving the age-old internet truism - Ask and it shall come to you!

I yanked one of the memory modules, powered up, and no beeps.

Pulled the other one, stuck the first one I pulled into its place, powered up, beeps returned.

Replaced the one that didn't beep into the first socket, and I'm back in business.  At least partially.

I'm not very happy that the beep code I got is apparently undoc'd.

But, what matters now is I gotta go after G.Skill...   >:(

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Re: GA-880GA-UD3H Beep Codes
« Reply #2 on: March 04, 2011, 09:03:44 am »
Congratulations! on not being a Newbie any more.

Sometimes we do find beep codes that don't seem to fit in with any usual set of known beeps. That's what adds to the fun  ;D
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Re: GA-880GA-UD3H Beep Codes
« Reply #3 on: March 08, 2011, 08:36:32 pm »
hi look the back of the book ! grafics or monitor error  . i had 2+6 beeps which was ram . hope that helps
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Re: GA-880GA-UD3H Beep Codes
« Reply #4 on: March 08, 2011, 08:40:38 pm »
hi look the back of the book ! grafics or monitor error  . i had 2+6 beeps which was ram . hope that helps

No that is 1 long and 2 short for graphics or monitor error.

There are various odd codes that seem to crop up and often mean memory.
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Re: GA-880GA-UD3H Beep Codes
« Reply #5 on: March 08, 2011, 08:49:03 pm »
Yeah, I did find a semi-officious-appearing page somewhere that said anything other than the doc'd codes pointed at RAM.

Anyway, I'm pretty darn certain it's the RAM.  I pulled one stick, and it booted right up.  Replaced the remaining stick with the one I'd pulled, and the beeps came back.  I'm RMAing the RAM.  So far, G.Skill has been very understanding. 
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Re: GA-880GA-UD3H Beep Codes
« Reply #6 on: March 08, 2011, 08:58:25 pm »
Well good luck and let us know how you get on.  :)
Gigabyte X58A-UD7
i7 920
Dominators 1600 x6 12GB
6970 2GB
HX850
256GB SSD, Sam 1TB, WDB320GB
Blu-Ray
HAF 932

Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3
i7 3770K
Vengeance 1600 16GB
6950 2GB
HCP1200W
Revo Drive x2, 1.5TB WDB RAID0
16x DLRW
StrikeX S7
Full water cooling
3 x 27" Iiy