PC hangs with striped screen and then three long beeps on start-up
Recently the following thing happened to my PC a couple of times:
Screen was as if covered with black and white stripes with a distinct square in the middle and the PC was not responding to input.
When the PC was rebooted it either was beeping with three long beeps or there was no beep at all.
Another weird thing was happening that may be related: from time to time when the PC was operational the buzzing continuous sound appeared on the AUX sound card output.
It also may be worth noting that both video card and sound card are integrated with motherboard.
Any ideas what could be done with that?
Solution 1:
re-seat your RAM module(s)
Solution 2:
Your screen shot looks very similar to the screens I occasionally got with my old, failing, graphics card. The square in the middle is where the cursor is.
My solution was to replace the graphics card. As you're using the integrated graphics on your motherboard I can only suggest that you buy a graphics card. Your motherboard has a PCI Express slot so you shouldn't have any difficulty finding a reasonably priced card.
I can't explain the beeps with this theory though. It might indicate that something more serious is wrong with the motherboard.
Solution 3:
This wouldn't explain the beeps, but test the screen quickly on a different input to rule out any problems with that.
Next, the beeps! if the screen is fine and you are getting that output, it would mean that the motherboard is having problems. First step would be to remove everything, and just leave in power, one RAM (if you had more), nothing external apart from the screen and no hard drives. We are not trying to boot up, we are just trying to get past the BIOS.
If this works, gradually put items back one by one until you get another failure.
If it does not work, and you are still getting beeps, you most likely have a dead board. Check for capacitors that have blown
The top should be almost flat (with slight indents out embossed sections depending on specification... look at the middle one) but you do not want to see any big bumps such as the first one or any leakage as the last one.
If your pc is of the late P4 generation, there were MANY MANY boards that had this problem which lead to a lot of random failures as you are experiencing now.