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airnkair5

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    Beep Code/Video Card Error
    « on: August 23, 2009, 01:55:15 PM »
    I am getting the Long - Short - Short beep code which I believe to be my video card and I need some suggestions on how to fix it. I think what caused the problem was when i reformatted and started putting drivers back on the laptop, I must have downloaded the wrong video card driver off of the dell website.

    I have a Dell inspiron 1501 laptop with windows xp.

    smeezekitty

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    Re: Beep Code/Video Card Error
    « Reply #1 on: August 23, 2009, 06:19:10 PM »
    a wrong driver would not cause a beep code
    only the bios has beep codes
    can you see anything at all on screen?
    even if you didnt have a driver atleast you would see the bios

    Mulreay

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    Re: Beep Code/Video Card Error
    « Reply #2 on: August 23, 2009, 06:56:50 PM »

    airnkair5

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      Re: Beep Code/Video Card Error
      « Reply #3 on: August 24, 2009, 10:42:44 PM »
      a wrong driver would not cause a beep code
      only the bios has beep codes
      can you see anything at all on screen?
      even if you didnt have a driver atleast you would see the bios



      no, nothing comes up on the screen at all. I hit the power key and I get a short beep then long-short-short and then the long-short-short gets repeated over and over. Also I was downloading a bunch of things off of the Dell website so i may have downloaded the bios as well. I just kept downloading and installing things and when one finally asked me to reboot, the computer just never started back up

      smeezekitty

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      Re: Beep Code/Video Card Error
      « Reply #4 on: August 24, 2009, 10:50:16 PM »
      reseat the ram