Maybe manager wanna write goddamn log-in page himself

[fellmama]

Okay, tech-savvy types: see if you can figure THIS one out

Comments

[anonymous]

Buy a Mac :-)
LOVE you!

[mouradar]

Clearly your motherboard is possessed. Place the offending computer in a pentagram carved onto the floor with a knife made of silver. Call a priest and exorcise the crap out of that motherboard.

In all seriousness, it sounds like your motherboard has crapped out and should probably be replaced. If you're unwilling to go through all the trouble or if you have a laptop then you might as well buy a new computer.

[cheyinka]

Some googling suggests that ASUS motherboards use the Award BIOS, and that the only errors are long-short-short (display error), repeating short beeps (memory error), and either high-pitched or alternating-pitch beeps (overheating). No other beep codes seem to have a long-short-short pattern, so I think that's the one.

I don't know if that explains the restarting problem, though; you could look at the motherboard and see if any capacitors are swollen (this is bad) or leaking (this is very bad), or try to reseat the video card, I guess?

[fellmama]

My housemate suggested checking the seating of the video card and the RAM, which I think is a good idea--either of those things would help explain why it seems to be vaguely connected to temperature.

[fellmama]

I checked the motherboard and reseated the video card today; I saw nothing obvious, so I think (fortunately) that physical damage is out. I did have a scare when I managed to unplug the hard drive and not notice--did you know that your computer will do nothing but give you scary, scary boot errors when you do that? I do now! But having plugged it back in, everything seems to be working now . . .

[cheyinka]

It's much more frightening when that happens and you haven't just unplugged the hard drive, believe me :D

Glad things seem to be working!