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AlaskanSnowman:
I would\'ve posted this in the hardware section but it looks like it hasn\'t had an issue since 2011. I recently tried to hook my plasma screen TV to my desktop PC through the DVI/HDMI cable, leaving the other cable still hooked to my PC monitor, everything seemed fine till I clicked on the IE icon and my TV went black, after turning my monitor back on and unplugging the TV my PC wont boot up it gives me I long beep and 3 short beeps, after doing some research I found that its either a RAM problem or a video card issue. I recently purchased 16G of Gskill Ram to upgrade my memory(it is on my QVL list)so after going through the steps to make sure my RAM is seated correctly I determined it was the video card. I currently have a GeForce GTX 550 Ti and after pulling it to try to see if my older GeForce GTX 460 might remedy the issue to help figure out if it was indeed the card it still did the same thing. My PC will boot with the same 1 long beep and 3 short beeps but the monitor is still black and I can hear the Windows theme play just no picture. On a whim I plugged my 550 into the PCIe slot for running SLI and it worked,.. I have a picture on my monitor now but my question is can a PCIe slot go bad?...or burn up somehow and if so how can I test to make certain it is. what are my options for regaining that slot.

guestolo:
which motherboard? which BIOS?, as eg.. Award BIOS v4
More than likely GPU or Ram, but beep code gives better indication

AlaskanSnowman:
sorry for not including this info in my original post..
motherboard ASUS P8P67-M LGA 1155 socket for Intel second gen i7
Bios 32Mb Flash ROM, EFI AMI bios which has not been updated.
also not to further complicate things but I noticed when I was in the Bios setup that only 8Gs of my RAM is shown @ 1333GHZ when its rated for 2133GHZ... not sure if that matters.
please let me know if there is any other info you may need.

guestolo:
A bios update may fix some problems
One update I believe addresses 

Fixed onboard & add-on VGA card compatibility issue
 I can\'t find your exact model motherboard, what bios version you have installed?
Are you planning to update bios?
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You should have your manual for tweaking memory, etc....
Here\'s a link to a similiar model motherboard manual
http://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/P8P67M_PRO/HelpDesk_Manual/

AlaskanSnowman:
ok.. my Bios is American Megatrends v0702 which I tried to update and I cant seem to find an update for it. installed the ASUS update utility with no luck, when I try the option of \"install update from the internet\" all it says is looking for server. The ASUS website is not much help either.

I do have the manual for my motherboard but any manual overclocking or changing setting,( like the speed of my RAM it crashes) and gives me the red light on the motherboard.
I realize tomorrow is Christmas so have a great Christmas Guestolo and I look forward to continuing this thread after the holidays.

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