Z440 Frustration!!!

[tCXiong04]

Here's a strange issue. One day my Z440 won't boot up. Got the 4 beeps. Power issue right? Bought a working barebones Z440 off eBay for cheap to test and confirm. Swapped all parts from my system to the barebones system. GPU, RAM & SSD + HDDs. Guess what? The test system gets the 4 beeps as well! But I know that it actually worked because the seller showed me it was working! So started testing everything. Ram sticks are good. Hard drives and SSD checked out. Now leaves the GPU. The test system came with an OEM Quadro M2000. When I leave that gpu in, the system boots! But when I take it out and put in my nice RTX 2060 12gb, I get the 4 beeps. Now a potential GPU issue right? WRONG. Dropped $300 for a 3060 at BestBuy. The test system with the BRAND NEW 3060 throws the 4 beeps it did with my 2060! What's going on? The 700 Watt PSU surely has enough power to supply the 200 watts the 3060 & 2060 requires?? I am running a 6 pin to 8 pin converter & thinking that's the cause but it was running fine for 8-9 months. I'm going to return the 3060 and get my money back, but my rig has been out of commission for a month and a half now. And I'm stuck with 2 Z440s that won't boot for some reason with my specs. Saw a thread on the forum where a guy was running a 4070 in his Z440. How can mine not run?!?! For clarity, my full specs are an Intel Xeon E5-2620 V4 @ 2.1Ghz, 32GB DDR4 2133Mhz Ram, 256GB SSD, 4TB HDD, 1TB HDD, & Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 12GB. 

[tCXiong04 · Accepted solution]

After lots of swearing and frustration, I actually did it! Turns out the 2060 was dead and causing the pc to throw the 4 beep error code. Also turned out that I had the ram in different slots so it wouldn't boot after I installed the 3060. Moderators, can you delete the whole forum post? There's no option here on my end. Finally got my rig up and running!