Asus P5N32-E SLI, suddenly I boot it up and get a constant beep.

The most annoying part is that the motherboard manual has no section for beep codes and checking google.....every site has a different answer to what the Award Bios codes mean.

It was freezing (Both blue screens and hard freezes) but before it refused to post at all I was able to get into the bios and made sure temperatures weren't the problem.

I've reseated the memory/tried all slots/each stick individually.
Reseated the Video Card/Reconnected the 6 pin Power Connection

Checked all the hard drives. I can get a friends spare pci (Not even pci-e!) Video card to see if thats the problem later tonight.

Other than that, No matter what I've done I just get a constant loud beep that never ends. Any help is appreciated

Did you try resetting the cmos? Until you get the video card from your friend you can remove it altogether and see if the machine still beeps.

Yeah I did try resetting the CMOS, even did it each time I tried the individual sticks of ram.

k tried booting without the video card in there and I still get the same constant unending beep.

So the motherboard is the culprit?

I think I'm just going to grab a smaller atx board for around $70 and go from there.


But today is Medieval Times

sorry to hear that. i have the same mobo!!

Oh well, not much I can do right?

Tried reconnecting everything and it's still the same long low frequency beep every time

So I'll just HOPE it's the Motherboard without any ways left to test for the problem. Pick up a slightly newer but probably lower end board for 70 bucks and be back to killing zombies in no time. I hope

Medieval times was great!

Sodalas,
I ended up with this problem on my first P5N32-E SLI Plus. It turned out that because the NB cooler is so small, it had overheated and one of my two memory buses completely died.

I eventually figured this out when I tried to boot with a single stick of memory in my board, in every slot. Honestly though, it sounds like time for an RMA.

Pray you don't have a bad experience with that.

Don't rule out the CPU either.

I had been having blue screens and memtest fails for the longest time, and replacing the mobo and ram didn't fix it. Turned out something got borked on my C2D.

Once it was replaced, i didn't have any problems with any of the other attempted hardware.

Really though? I mean if I can't narrow the problem down to the board or processor isn't that kind of gay? To be perfectly honest I think I may have a c2d around I can swap in to test. This is a quad core 6600 though

No beep code section in the manual, so helpful...........

Long...low frequency beep.

Give it a whack.

If it fixes your problems, you owe me a case of guinness... if it doesn't... well, then it's gotta be the motherboard.

Will do....tomorrow when im rested and willing to deal with the Zalman 9500 (Yep...boy was that fun to install)


Otherwise I'm grabbing an Asus P5KPL-CM smaller ATX board. If the Northbridge cooler somehow damaged the memory channels then I suppose that's how it goes.

RMA that board though? I hate the RMA process but to be honest grabbing a new board for 70 dollars is no big deal. The sound card that came with it doesn't work with my headphone mic. On my laptop it works like a charm.

So buying a new sound card would be 40 bucks anyways, this way I'm getting integrated sound and back to killing Zombies/Scouts/Engineers