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I traded CPU, PSU and Graphics Card with a friend. When I took his parts and build my PC everything works fine. When We tried to put my parts in his PC, the Mainboard did a non-ending 2 tone siren alarm (long - short). We did many things to see whats wrong, and we thought the MB is dead.

Now, half a year later, my MB is dead. I forgot about what we thought about his MB a few months ago, so I tried to pull back all his parts in the "original" PC. Everything works. For me it's obvious that my MB is dead. But his MB is now behaving weird.

When I start the PC MB beeps once short, and works fine. When I restart the PC in Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 the PC restarts and beeps long-short once on startup. Its the same sound like in the past, when nothing worked, but only once.

Short clip on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujvJUScexVw

Mainboard: Abit IP35V
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450
RAM: 4x2GB Kingston Hyper X DDR2 8500-CL5 1066MHz
PSU: BeQuiet 550W
Graphics Card: nVidia GeForce GTX 285 AMP OC

I did BIOS Update successfully and I cleared CMOS a few times. Still same problem. I'm wondering because the PC looks like it is running fine. But why the long-short beep on restart?

Is it possible that just the beep-code part on a MB is corrupt? Anyway, I hope some of you got some ideas to help me out. I don't got the finances to get a new PC, I could only ask my friend to get his Abit Board and then I have to hope it will stay alive one more year. Other MB on same level costs 80€ (new). I don't want to investigate that much.

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  • In your research what does the error code mean? – Ramhound Dec 12 '14 at 11:24
  • never had that problem, but it sounds to me like it is two-tone siren Low CPU Fan speed or Voltage Level issue. Maybe you should check that – malakrsnaslava Dec 12 '14 at 11:24
  • Does this help ? http://superuser.com/questions/797012/why-does-my-computer-beep-when-i-turn-it-on-what-are-these-beep-codes – Dave Dec 12 '14 at 11:59
  • {at} Ramhound My research said in the past "A two-tone siren, generally caused by overheating or out of specification voltages", now I got the same sound but only once. 1 long - 1 short means "DRAM ERROR". I checked my RAM, it works fine in several PCs. @malakrsnaslava I checkes PSU too, no PSU problem. I never configured anything besides boot priority in BIOS, I have to do some research about what should be and what is. I'm at home in around 5-6 hours, I can upload a screenshot tho. – Yaerox Dec 12 '14 at 12:03
  • Your memory working in another system doesn't indicate there isn't a problem with the motherboard's memory modules If the system will not even POST, and you have decoded the error code, then the meaning of the code is your answer. If it does POST use memtestx86 to verify any memory problems. – Ramhound Dec 12 '14 at 12:06
  • @Ramhound Yeah I already thought about this, but remember, this only happens on restart. Not on powering on. That's what making me thinking it shouldn't be a memory slot problem too...but at least I know it does the same with other RAM too ... – Yaerox Dec 12 '14 at 12:08
  • @Dave like you can read in the comments above, I got some sources too, but this doesn't really helps me, because I'm not sure if the beeps are right... – Yaerox Dec 12 '14 at 12:09
  • I totally glazed over the "restart" aspect because you quoted that text. It really wasn't necessary to do that. – Ramhound Dec 12 '14 at 12:10
  • @malakrsnaslava sry missed the source: http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php/218664-ABIT-BIOS-BEEP-CODES {at}Ramhound sorry for that :/ – Yaerox Dec 12 '14 at 12:10
  • @Ramhound Did memtest again on boot http://postimg.org/image/b98fj8y1b/ – Yaerox Dec 13 '14 at 22:47
  • My Temperatures http://postimg.org/image/7ig1m7p3h/ – Yaerox Dec 14 '14 at 01:23

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