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Anytime.  Glad to have been of assistance.

 

Red Power LED flashes four times, once every second, followed by a two second pause. Beeps stop after fifth iteration but LEDs continue until problem is solved.


4 Power failure (power supply is overloaded).


1. Open the hood and ensure the 4 or 6-wire power supply cable is seated into the connector on the system board.


2. Check if a device is causing the problem by removing ALL attached devices (such as hard, diskette, or optical drives, and expansion cards). Power on the system. If the system enters the POST, then power off and replace one device at a time and repeat this procedure until failure occurs. Replace the device that is causing the failure. Continue adding devices one at a time to ensure all devices are functioning properly.


3. Replace the power supply.


4. Replace the system board.

 

It doesn't beep 7 times because that is a different failure point, I guess...

 

System board failure (ROM detected failure prior to video).

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