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Question about BIOS beep codes

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Vicpop

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New to building computers.

Put a Striker Extreme-based system into a new case.
Getting what sounds like a 1-3-4 beep code, which is supposedly "First 64K RAM odd/even logic".

What does this actually mean? I read that it's a fatal error, other sites saying 'bad motherboard', but what is it that's making it run into this error? Where is the problem, necessarily?

The LCD poster reports 'FAN FAIL'.
No hardware except for the CPU and RAM are installed. I've tried different configurations like this (originally with a graphics card installed), with all 4 sticks of RAM, 2 sticks of RAM, cleaing the CMOS several times.

This motherboard is pretty old now, about 2 years; is it just dead?
 
It wasn't a 1-3-4, apparently; ASUS says 1 long and 3 short are a video device error. I put in my graphics card and it doesn't beep anymore, just doesn't start up and show anything.

There's another problem then. I've got my graphics card (HD4890) hooked up to a monitor through DVI-D, it's powered (it does its 100% fan diagnostic thing), case fans power up and everything when I turn it on, but no image of anything is displayed, and it loops the startup cycle (100% diagnostic, DVD drives spinning up) until I shut it off. I've tried a number of things (switching the card around slots, booting with different memory configurations, etc), with no luck.

My guesses are that either my graphics card is faulty or the motherboard is fried.
 
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It was the graphics card; it wasn't faulty, I was just using the wrong cable from the psu. Dumb mistake, but I'm (extremely) happy now.
 
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