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Sidmouth

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Hi everyone,

My PC has started booting with 3 beeps and a bios code of d6, it beeps at this stage.

It can't be a seating issue with components as it errored two days ago however with a couple of restarts it booted fine and let me operate as normal. This was without me taking off the side panel and moving anything.

Today though it has booted with the code and the beeps again.

What's the cause and best course of action?

Many thanks.
 
ubuysa

ubuysa

The BSOD Doctor
It would help to know what motherboard you have and what BIOS you have too.

On AMI BIOS three short beeps is a RAM failure. That said the commonest cause of a D6 motherboard error is the graphics card, but without knowing which mothrboard it's hard to be sure.

Tony 1044 does have a valid point, you could have had a badly seated card since day 1 and only now it it becoming an issue. Check all cards, especially RAM and the graphics card. Pop them out and then back in, ensuring they are all fully seated.
 
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Sidmouth

Silver Level Poster
ubuysa said:
It would help to know what motherboard you have and what BIOS you have too.

On AMI BIOS three short beeps is a RAM failure. That said the commonest cause of a D6 motherboard error is the graphics card, but without knowing which mothrboard it's hard to be sure.

Tony 1044 does have a valid point, you could have had a badly seated card since day 1 and only now it it becoming an issue. Check all cards, especially RAM and the graphics card. Pop them out and then back in, ensuring they are all fully seated.
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Many thanks for the replies,

My motherboard is the following: -

ASUS® ROG STRIX X99

Later on I'll look to reset both the ram and the GPU.

My ram is hyper X savage 16gb and the GPU is a evga gtx 1080 ftw.
 
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