my pc wont start

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Serivon

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I recently began building a new computer. However, initially when the computer turned on, it would only stay on for 5 seconds, giving off several beeps, and then shut off. After trying several things in an attempt to fix it, the computer stopped turning on at all. However, the leds all light up saying power is getting to the motherboard, and I tested the PSUs on another system and the system started up with no trouble. Any help would be nice, thank you.
 
Can you describe the beeps, something like 2 shorts 1 long. Or 1 short 1 long. That type of thing. Beep codes can tell you a lot about what's wrong.

Also, what motherboard are you using? Also the ram type and model.
 
The beeps are 1 long beep, 3 short, short pause, then 3 short beeps again. My motherboard is a M2N-E SLI and my ram is 1 GB DDR2 PC2-5300.
 
This is what I found. Based on Award bio's which is what your board seems to use.

1 long and 3 short is the Video (EGA) Display Circuitry (remove and replace video card, or video card failure or bad video ram)


3 short beeps and then my system went into sleep mode. Changing the Suspend Mode to off OR increasing the # of seconds to enter suspend from default cured the problem.
 
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Could you please explain how to change suspend mode. My motherboard manual makes no mention of it. Also, I believe I may have some bad ram, have to find out.
 
I am unable to affect suspend mode in any way as my computer simply won't turn on at all. The way the website explains it, I need to at least be able to get into my BIOS setup.
 
Did you try reseating your video card? Or trying another one?

And, does your video card have a place that you need to plug in a power cord? If so, did you?
 
I tried reseating it several times. It has no place for a power cord. Also, I do not understand how the video card could affect my computer's ability to power up. When it did power up, I got video.
 
Serivon said:
I am unable to affect suspend mode in any way as my computer simply won't turn on at all. The way the website explains it, I need to at least be able to get into my BIOS setup.
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see if there is a reset pin you can jumper on the mobo to reset to defaults...i would also check your internal components and make sure everyting is seated ok. if that isnt the problem, try disconnecting everything except, power, ram, cpu and the monitor...that is how you troubleshoot no post, which is what this is...
 
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