Gaming rig meltdown. Much panic.

[bujinkan-ka]

Good afternoon folks.

My gaming rig [ as specified in my signature ] crashed today whilst I left it to download. Recently, I have installed a ghetto rigged water cooling system and after a few hairy situations, the PC was running at a steady 35C. It was going along just fine, as it had done for the past two days. Then out of the blue, it froze and I couldn't get anything done with it. I restarted it, and at the point where the motherboard would POST, there was a long beep, followed by two short beeps and the screen was blank. I shut it down and switched off the power at the mains. I checked and all components and heatsinks etc were cool to the touch. The CPU block, the GPU block, RAM modules, northbridge HSF - nothing seemed out of the ordinary there. At the moment, I'm pretty sure that the water cooling system isn't the weak link since i have been constantly monitoring temperatures and the highest temperature i reached was 37C. I've also got two fans in the front of the case drawing air in, which i intend to keep in.
Can anyone shed some light on this situation ? Any help would be much appreciated.

edit : after listening to the POST beep, it's actually a long beep, followed by two short beeps.

[Ruggerbugger]

Have you Googled the beep codes?

What make is your BIOS? Check this site out. It looks likely to be a video card error.

[bujinkan-ka]

My apologies but I've only just noticed that my graphics card had partially come out of the socket. The PC is working again.

I'm sorry for being such a nuisance people, I just panicked for a few minutes - especially considering I've spent over twelve weeks worth of wages on this pc !

[SilentDeath]

First check for leaks, then reinsert video card, memory, cpu etc..

Try clearing bios. If it doesnt help, swap parts with those from a known-good system untill it works.

[bujinkan-ka]

First check for leaks, then reinsert video card, memory, cpu etc..

Try clearing bios. If it doesnt help, swap parts with those from a known-good system untill it works.

I've already had the experience with the leaks. Thankfully the cooling loop was running outside of the system and all leaks were fixed, thanks to some vaseline.

Either way, the system is running fine now, and i've secured that wayward graphics card in it's socket.

Regardless, Thank you for the response.

[Ruggerbugger]

no problem, reseating and rebooting probably sorts out more problems than we realise!