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bpruitt

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    Beep noises upon start up
    « on: March 04, 2009, 09:15:44 AM »
    I am running windows vista 32-bit

    I was working on my PC late last night, and when i was done - i shut it down.  Never had a PC problem with it up to this point aside from the occasional hiccup it would get when trying to boot up (sometimes it'd randomly freeze on boot up)



    Well, now.....when i started it back up this morning - there was a huge problem.

    It cycles through the hardware information like normal, and gets to the dell screen that shows a loading bar, and 1/2 through - it emits a very loud, long, and non-stop beeping noise from the machine its self (think the bios beep, but repeating its self forever) and the PC won't boot.

    My PC does not have an A: drive, so i used my laptop to create a boot CD
    But i can't get the PC to boot from CD
    I can't get it to enter boot options or setup

    I have no idea where to go next to continue finding out whats wrong with it.

    Any ideas?

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    Re: Beep noises upon start up
    « Reply #1 on: March 04, 2009, 12:12:56 PM »
    Open the case. Re-seat RAM, and video card (if any).
    If that doesn't help, and you have more than 1 RAM stick, try starting the computer with one stick at a time.

    bpruitt

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      Re: Beep noises upon start up
      « Reply #2 on: March 05, 2009, 07:55:28 AM »
      well - i got home after work today - turned it on and it fired right up.

      So once i was in - i quickly updated my BIOS and the drivers for my chipset (along with a few other non-urgent ones)

      I ran checkdisk and defragged the HD


      all seems to be fine now :|

      Very strange

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      Re: Beep noises upon start up
      « Reply #3 on: March 05, 2009, 11:47:29 AM »
      Strange indeed...
      However, keep it that way :)

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      Re: Beep noises upon start up
      « Reply #4 on: March 05, 2009, 09:22:35 PM »
      ONE STEP AT A TIME AS 1 PROBLEM CAN BECOME MANY TRUST ME MY 50 BUCK BOMB HAS TAUGHT ME THE HARD WAY!! WELL DONE ALL THE SAME

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      Re: Beep noises upon start up
      « Reply #5 on: March 05, 2009, 09:30:17 PM »
      huh?

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      Re: Beep noises upon start up
      « Reply #6 on: March 07, 2009, 06:09:32 PM »
      (car or computer as above i refered to my car)
      well - i got home after work today - turned it on and it fired right up.

      So once i was in - i quickly updated my BIOS and the drivers for my chipset (along with a few other non-urgent ones)

      I ran checkdisk and defragged the HD


      all seems to be fine now :|

      Very strange

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      Re: Beep noises upon start up
      « Reply #7 on: March 07, 2009, 08:55:18 PM »
      I was trying to dereference Null Pointers before it was cool.

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      Re: Beep noises upon start up
      « Reply #8 on: March 08, 2009, 12:48:02 PM »
      Must be some code language...LOL