Can someone help me identify whats wrong?

[QuietOne]

I reckon its a HDD issue or missing OS, I think Asus boards boot to bios if it can't find OS. Mine did. same with non bootable USB media.

 

[dayvurd]

So basically you want me to test it outside of the case?

 

[dayvurd]

I reckon its a HDD issue or missing OS, I think Asus boards boot to bios if it can't find OS. Mine did. same with non bootable USB media.

I did originally think that

 

[QuietOne]

have you got a bootable win8 or 10 usb stick. try booting from that

 

[RobM]

1 beep and 3 is indicative of gfx failure.
I have known a case to short out a board so just want to rule that out since its the only changed factor bar the fans.
If you had access to another PC you would be able to test the drive and card

 

[dayvurd]

I dont have one i dont even have a optical drive either

 

[dayvurd]

The case is wood though, its non conductive lol

 

[RobM]

do you have a bootable usb?

 

[dayvurd]

The mobo did take a couple of accidental knocks in transit to its new case but nothing terrible i dont think. The hard drives were moved a couple of times, they were never dropped or moved around too much. I will say thoughi booted to windows once. After that i coyldnt get it again. And no i dont have a bootable usb

 

[RobM]

Ah the black and white case i remember now
Well I am at a loss as to what to suggest as your not able to troubleshoot effectively.
Do you have a m8 locally that has access to a USB stick you can create a bootable from? or even has a sapre pc?

 

[dayvurd]

Hmm i possibly do, but we both work and it probably wouldnt be till next week till i saw him next. Im just tempted to buy a new board to see if that would fix it tbh

 

[RobM]

if you can afford the hit but may be wasted cash

 

[dayvurd]

Well i wanted to upgrade anyway to a z170 and a 6700k but its a tad shy out my price range for the moment, and if it were the case that my SSD was gone, then i wouldnt be any better off really. I dont really know what direction to go

 

[dayvurd]

So i just bought a cheap mobo. It was 39.99. Not exactly amazing but at this point i just want to rule out my current mobo being the cause of the problem.

 

[RobM]

any result on the other motherboard?

 

[dayvurd]

Not coming till monday

 

[QuietOne]

Get a USB stick off someone and use their computer to get a windows iso and create a bootable usb.

 

[Mysterae]

Get a USB stick off someone and use their computer to get a windows iso and create a bootable usb.

That's a very good shout (no pun intended) .

Or you get Ubuntu on a bootable USB or CD and see if you can get it running.

 

[Rak]

Isn't 3-Beeps indicating a problem with the RAM? Maybe removing one stick to check or relocating them in the other two slots to check would help narrowing it down.

Other than that, 3-Beeps could mean mainboard failure like i had on my Dell Pavillion PC from the shelf, but that might be a Dell specific Beep code from 8+ years ago).

 

[RobM]

hes getting 1 beep followed by 3 beeps Rak