So after moving into my dorm room last week, I finally decided to setup my 1.5 - 2 year old desktop. All I hooked up was the power, and after turning it on, it let off 5 beeps. I looked up the beep codes for my motherboard and it says that it is a CPU failure/bad CPU.
What I then did was hook up the screen to see if it gave any messages, but all it did was continue as it normally would. I hooked up the keyboard to log in and then the mouse. Everything looked fine, except right after logging in it gave me a message saying "You must restart to save changes" or something. I didn't know what else to do, so I restarted, expecting the beeps again, but they did come. I did a full shutdown and then turned it on again ten seconds later, still no more beeps.
I expected the hard drive to fail first, as it's been making some noises, not the CPU.
My PC's specs are:
1x AMD A6-3650 2.6GHx Quad Core FM1 CPU
4x 4GB DDR3 1333MHz Memory
1x MSI A75MA-G55 FM1 mATX MotherBoard
1x 1TB 3.5" SATA 6G 7200RPM HDD
1x Single Radeon HD6850 1GB PCIe Graphics Card
1x 550W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply
Misc. Peripherals.
Obviously, this is something I should eventually be worried about, but what is the problem and how long before I expect a permanent failure? The computer doesn't seem to be running any slower and the beeps are gone.
I should also mention that for months the computer will often display the wrong time, often 2-4 hours behind what the actual time is, so at first I thought the CMOS battery had died or something. While looking up codes, one guy did fix this problem by replacing the CMOS battery, but my codes indicate a CPU failure, not a CMOS failure (which is like 9 or 10 beeps).
What I then did was hook up the screen to see if it gave any messages, but all it did was continue as it normally would. I hooked up the keyboard to log in and then the mouse. Everything looked fine, except right after logging in it gave me a message saying "You must restart to save changes" or something. I didn't know what else to do, so I restarted, expecting the beeps again, but they did come. I did a full shutdown and then turned it on again ten seconds later, still no more beeps.
I expected the hard drive to fail first, as it's been making some noises, not the CPU.
My PC's specs are:
1x AMD A6-3650 2.6GHx Quad Core FM1 CPU
4x 4GB DDR3 1333MHz Memory
1x MSI A75MA-G55 FM1 mATX MotherBoard
1x 1TB 3.5" SATA 6G 7200RPM HDD
1x Single Radeon HD6850 1GB PCIe Graphics Card
1x 550W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply
Misc. Peripherals.
Obviously, this is something I should eventually be worried about, but what is the problem and how long before I expect a permanent failure? The computer doesn't seem to be running any slower and the beeps are gone.
I should also mention that for months the computer will often display the wrong time, often 2-4 hours behind what the actual time is, so at first I thought the CMOS battery had died or something. While looking up codes, one guy did fix this problem by replacing the CMOS battery, but my codes indicate a CPU failure, not a CMOS failure (which is like 9 or 10 beeps).
