Is my motherboard fried?

Asked by XOIIO (18360

) October 7th, 2011 from iPhone

I just woke up to a BSOD, error C000021a, and when I tried to reinstall it did the same, then after rebooting if gives a DRAM beep, and no video pops up, just the constant beep, the power supply is good, the motherboard has been working great and is in good shape, this just suddenly happened. No other ram sticks work :(

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In the 1950’s, a friend’s father was a TV repairman. He made a mint because a high percentage of the time something was unplugged.

Check all connections !

Tropical_Willie (31594

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@Tropical_Willie I checked everything out, its all good.

anyways i swapped out for a better mobo, got it running, but vista “cannot reinitialize the installation engine” like a little bitch, because the 7 installation cd I have isnt bootable, so i gues ill have to install vista on an IDE drive, then clone it to the SATA

XOIIO (18360

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hey cool, i made a question without topics XD

XOIIO (18360

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Exactly what sequence of beeps are you hearing? The computer delivers POST (Power-On Self Test) beeps to indicate its condition. It’s possible that the video is fried, and not the motherboard.

CWOTUS (26102

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Its one long one in a continuous loop

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