Repeated Long B(l)eeping by PC

Welcome to Bleeping Computer, a free community where people like yourself come together to discuss and learn how to use their computers. Using the site is easy and fun. As a guest, you can browse and view the various discussions in the forums, but can not create a new topic or reply to an existing one unless you are logged in. Other benefits of registering an account are subscribing to topics and forums, creating a blog, and having no ads shown anywhere on the site.
Click here to Register a free account now! or read our Welcome Guide to learn how to use this site.

Important Announcement: We have two terrific contests running on the site that I wanted all our members and guests to know about.

The first contest is the HP Magic Giveaway, which is underway as of November 28th. More information can be found at this topic, which will be updated very soon with further information.

The second contests, is for the chance to win two Seagate FreeAgent external hard drives. More information about this contest can be found here.

These are both amazing contests and I suggest everyone submit an entry for them.

- BleepingComputer Management

BleepingComputer.com > Hardware > Internal Hardware

Repeated Long B(l)eeping by PC, happened after installing new RAM card

Options

amarrao View Member Profile	Jul 10 2005, 01:14 AM Post #1
Member Group: Members Posts: 20 Joined: 17-March 05 Member No.: 14,654	My PC repeats a long beep when I turn it on. Earlier, after installing a new RAM card, I was having repeated "Delayed Write Failures" and after googling that found that it's usually a sign of bad hard drive sectors. However, I installed the new RAM JUST before the "Delayed Write Failures" started popping up, so I am confused about what is really the problem. What do I do? (moderator edit: moved to appropriate forum and added information to post's title. jgweed) This post has been edited by jgweed: Jul 10 2005, 05:22 AM

dannyboy 950 View Member Profile	Jul 10 2005, 06:52 AM Post #2
Member Group: Members Posts: 148 Joined: 2-January 05 Member No.: 8,395	I would suspect that new memory, dbl check that it is seated properly and that it is not incompatible with your existing memory. [ check the FAQS for issues] Also check your bios manufacturers home page for their beep codes and determine exactly what that code means. If memory checks ok run a scan disk and defrag on the drive from safe mode Let us know how ya get on.

amarrao View Member Profile	Jul 11 2005, 02:15 AM Post #3
Member Group: Members Posts: 20 Joined: 17-March 05 Member No.: 14,654	The computer, when starting up, does not even get to the point of sending a signal to the monitor before beginning its beeping, which begins within about a second of startup. This means that I am unable to get into the BIOS and find out the manufacturer in order to identify the meaning of the code. Unfortunately, removing the new RAM Card has not changed the situation whatsoever. If it were the hard drive that was the problem, then I am possibly in a quandary.. My computer came with a recovery partition on the hard drive rather than a set of recovery CDs, which, according to HP, have never been available anyway. So, if the hard drive is indeed the problem, how would I go about installing XP onto a new blank hard drive without paying for a new copy? This post has been edited by amarrao: Jul 11 2005, 02:20 AM

« Next Oldest · Internal Hardware · Next Newest »

1 User(s) are reading this topic (1 Guests and 0 Anonymous Users)

0 Members:

Display Mode: Standard · Switch to: Linear+ · Switch to: Outline

Track this topic · Email this topic · Print this topic · Subscribe to this forum

Lo-Fi Version

Time is now: 4th December 2008 - 01:57 PM

Advertise \| About Us \| Terms of Use \| Privacy Policy \| Contact Us \| Site Map \| Chat \| Tutorials \| Uninstall List
Discussion Forums \| The Computer Glossary \| Resources \| RSS Feeds \| Startups \| The File Database \| Malware Removal Guides