I'm pretty sure I've touched upon this subject before, but not in the detail I'm about to explain here.
I had a Z77 Extreme6 (which has since been replaced) that suddenly spat out beeps uncontrollably. If my memory serves me well, first I got 9 beeps, then I started getting other beep codes; from 1 beep to 3 beeps to 5 beeps (CPU fail), to a series of random beeps back-to-back before system boot.
At that point I started to suspect my motherboard was on its way to dying, especially after I discovered that my USB ports were failing. Any data that I transferred from an external drive through the USB ports disappeared from the destination drive after rebooting; even worse if the destination drive is also an external drive. For example, if I transferred data A from external drive X to external drive Y, that data would show up in drive Y until either I reboot or hookup drive Y to another machine. Then data A inexplicably vanishes, or a disk error pops up, requiring me to run a disk check, after which, data A is wiped out.
The disk drives were obviously not the problem. I checked my i7-2700K with Intel software, with the assumption that, if there was a CPU problem, it would show up in the test. My CPU passed, every time. I tested my RAM with MemTest86, even let it run twice, for hours, and there were no red flags. I sold my GeForce GTX570 at eBay (to get something faster), and so far the buyer has not had a problem with it.
Did I guess right, that my motherboard was unstable or fracked?
I had a Z77 Extreme6 (which has since been replaced) that suddenly spat out beeps uncontrollably. If my memory serves me well, first I got 9 beeps, then I started getting other beep codes; from 1 beep to 3 beeps to 5 beeps (CPU fail), to a series of random beeps back-to-back before system boot.
At that point I started to suspect my motherboard was on its way to dying, especially after I discovered that my USB ports were failing. Any data that I transferred from an external drive through the USB ports disappeared from the destination drive after rebooting; even worse if the destination drive is also an external drive. For example, if I transferred data A from external drive X to external drive Y, that data would show up in drive Y until either I reboot or hookup drive Y to another machine. Then data A inexplicably vanishes, or a disk error pops up, requiring me to run a disk check, after which, data A is wiped out.
The disk drives were obviously not the problem. I checked my i7-2700K with Intel software, with the assumption that, if there was a CPU problem, it would show up in the test. My CPU passed, every time. I tested my RAM with MemTest86, even let it run twice, for hours, and there were no red flags. I sold my GeForce GTX570 at eBay (to get something faster), and so far the buyer has not had a problem with it.
Did I guess right, that my motherboard was unstable or fracked?
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