[cKing]

I am putting my first computer together. My components are as follows. Ultra ULT-LSP650 650W ATX power supply. Biostar T series TZ68A+. 16MB Corsair XMS3 memory. I am trying to perform a test start to make sure things work. Not so good. PS kicks on, I get 4 quick beeps, CPU fan kicks on for a couple of seconds, then shuts down. PS restarts and process repeats itself. Where should I start to working on resolving this issue. Please start with primary suggestion followed by secondary, tertiary, etc. Thanks for all of your input.

[LiveBrianD]

Sounds like a defective board: http://www.tomshardw...317954-30-beeps

Btw, Ultra and Biostar aren't the best. (Corsair is good though, for both PSUs and RAM.) If you can, I'd advise returning the power supply and getting a Corsair, Seasonic, Antec, (non-Basiq), PC Power & Cooling, or Silverstone PSU. For the motherboard, Gigabyte, ASUS, MSI, and even ASRock are good brands.

This post has been edited by LiveBrianD: 22 November 2012 - 08:33 PM

[rgreen4]

I haven't used a Biostar board for an Intel based PC in well over a decade, not that I ever had any problems, just that when I went back to building my own, I went with Gigabyte because of the ready availability of information on the boards. I have had very good luck with Atec cases and PSUs so I tend to also stick with them.

You did not mention anything about an OS or video. If you have a monitor connected to the video output, it should scroll through the text on boot and let you know where it fails. On new builds, I will always include a DVD drive as part of the bare bones set up and I use an old Ubuntu distro disk for the "smoke test" of the first boot. (The Linux disks are live disk so you can run the machine from the CD. I never install the OS, just run it for a few minutes from the CD to test it out.)

If you do not have some boot device connected to the MB, that could be creating an error. I am not sure what the four beeps are - have you checked the diagnostics section of the manual for your motherboard?

You may also want to go into the BIOS and turn off the "splash screen" (the big ad for the motherboard manufacturer that hides all the scrolling text), I do for I want to see what is happening on boot. You might also turn off the restart on error in the BIOS as well, for then the boot will stop when it encounters an error and you can see from the text on the screen where it stopped.

[waldojim]

Ok, first, try removing anything that is not necessary, all but one stick of ram, hard drives, dvd drives, etc. Then clear the CMOS. Try to power on the machine. If your symptoms don't change, write down the beep code so we can figure out what it means. There are short, and long beeps given when there is an error, we need to know the type of beep and the order of them.