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getting long (3 sec) beep, then silence (3sec) no boot nothing on screen

This is an MSI K8N Neo-F Socket 939 NVidia nForce4 ATX AMD motherboard
the CPU is an AMD Athlon 64 3800+
Memor is Corsair DDR
Primary HD Is WD740GD
Pheonix BIOS

When I start the computer, I get 3 seconds silence then 3 second beep, but no bootup and nothing on the screen. I managed to get the computer started up a couple times, but it froze up. Now it won't start at all.

PUNKY

http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm
What beep you have in the link above?

rdaves

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I have alaready gone to that link. The beep I am getting isn't listed under Pheonix beep codes.
I just got the computer started again. About 10-minutes ago, I got what looked like a power loss and the computer rebooted. It has been up for a few minutes now and is running fine I will report on any problems later on.

rdaves

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I will mention here, that all this started right after an Itunes update.

nobus

a long beep indicates problems with video card in most cases

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willcomp

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lauchangkwang

suggest to try to run the memory test:
http://www.memtest.org/

agree with willcomp, sometime reseating the RAM will solved the problem ....... can try to run the memory test with 1 RAM, after tested ok, then change another 1 to test out (not recommend to test 2 RAM together if you got 2 inside, this will just make you don't know which 1 of RAM is causing the problem if really the RAM issue)

Hope this help .....

rdaves

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I have two memory cards on this computer. I removed the card in slot 1 and moved the card that was in slot 4 to 1. Computer started up fine. then I put the other card in slot 1 and got the beeps...bad memory.