Strange totalcrash and afterwards booting difficulties

blackdot said:

I was using my computer normally, then suddently he crashed heavily. Monitor black, sound stop, keyboard dead.

I restartet manually (pressing the button on the tower), then something strange happend, which never happened to me before:

He made strange beeps and the monitor stayed black.

The beeps were like this:

short beep, pause, short beep, pause, short beep, long pause, short higher beep, pause, short normal beep... then it seems just like he beeps randomly...

Even after wayting a while, unplugging everything, it's still the same.

Yesterday he worked perfectly, and from then I did not change anything. Didn't even turn him on.

Help please?

Hello and Welcome to SF !

Seems like it could be a Hardware issue. Check this article Hardware Diagnostic | Captain Debugger and post us the results.

Hope this helps,
Captain

blackdot said:

Hi, thanks for the quick answer. But I don't quite follow, I burnt that memtest on a cd, but how am I supposed to boot from CD, when nothing happens? It's just a black monitor and the computerbeeps... no bios, nothing.

Hello,

According to Beep sound you mentioned Computer POST and beep codes it could be a RAM issue itself.

Code:

1 long, 3 short 			Conventional/Extended memory failure

blackdot said:

already thought of that and exchanged ram :). still the same. I also reset the bios, still the same.

Try different DIMM slot

blackdot said:

no luck either

Maybe it's DIMM slot itself might have problem. In that case I would recommend to take you System to a local IT store.

blackdot said:

okay. was afraid, you'd say that . thank your for your time though.

Your Welcome :)