Hi all! Hope 2016's going good for everyone so far.
The problem started when last week. i boot up my pc for like 10mins and was playing a youtube video when the screen froze in place and there was a short burst of static sound over the speakers( like a split sec). Left it alone for 10mins no change i did a hard reset. It would try to reboot itself for like 5secs before shutting itself down and trying again. The cycle would repeat for 20 over times before i gave up on waiting and started to trouble shoot.
The error code would be 'b8' or '68' on the mobo display. Or a cycle of '01','b8','02'. These dont mean anything in the manual and nothing much found online.
Trouble shooting.
1) Dismantle everything and reconnect everything. Sata/power/connector pins.
2) Test the ram by trying out stick by stick on each dimm slot.
3) changing the mobo batt.
4)clearing CMOS
5) trying to boot w/o and drives.
All didnt work.
It would sometimes post and then say its booting in safe mode. But then shut itself down( maybe once in 50 attempts)
I once got into the bios. Reset everything to default and checked the timing.
All this did not work and the prob with booting is still there.
I left it overnight unplugged from the power socket and next morning it booted up fine. I was happy but worried cos i didnt figure out wat was wrong. Used it for about a week and it happened again today.
This time the screen froze and the static sound was heard again during a game and the system had booted up about 3hrs before.
I dont have parts (psu/spare ram/ cpu+mobo) to swap things around to determine what's faulty. And my parts are all out of warranty.
I repeated my troubleshooting and will see what it's like tmr but would love to hear from you guys what else I can try or what might be the problem.
Thanks a bunch!
The problem started when last week. i boot up my pc for like 10mins and was playing a youtube video when the screen froze in place and there was a short burst of static sound over the speakers( like a split sec). Left it alone for 10mins no change i did a hard reset. It would try to reboot itself for like 5secs before shutting itself down and trying again. The cycle would repeat for 20 over times before i gave up on waiting and started to trouble shoot.
The error code would be 'b8' or '68' on the mobo display. Or a cycle of '01','b8','02'. These dont mean anything in the manual and nothing much found online.
Trouble shooting.
1) Dismantle everything and reconnect everything. Sata/power/connector pins.
2) Test the ram by trying out stick by stick on each dimm slot.
3) changing the mobo batt.
4)clearing CMOS
5) trying to boot w/o and drives.
All didnt work.
It would sometimes post and then say its booting in safe mode. But then shut itself down( maybe once in 50 attempts)
I once got into the bios. Reset everything to default and checked the timing.
All this did not work and the prob with booting is still there.
I left it overnight unplugged from the power socket and next morning it booted up fine. I was happy but worried cos i didnt figure out wat was wrong. Used it for about a week and it happened again today.
This time the screen froze and the static sound was heard again during a game and the system had booted up about 3hrs before.
I dont have parts (psu/spare ram/ cpu+mobo) to swap things around to determine what's faulty. And my parts are all out of warranty.
I repeated my troubleshooting and will see what it's like tmr but would love to hear from you guys what else I can try or what might be the problem.
Thanks a bunch!
