OLD PC. Beeps?

[comda]

OK so my friend brought me his broken pc to  fix and heres the problem: When I turn it on it beeps once then stops beeps once and again. I tried to change the RAM chip it still did the same thing for various chiips. Does that mean the motherboard is dead?

[Allan]

It means he should not have brought it to you to fix.

Go to the website of the bios provider and check the beep codes.

[Accessless]

The motherboard should have a brand and model printed on the PCB, the manufacturer should have the BIOS type and possible Bleep codes listed.

It means he should not have brought it to you to fix....

A little harshly worded don't you think?

[Allan]

A little harshly worded don't you think?

No

[Accessless]

No

Bad day? We all have our days of learning.

[Allan]

Bad day? We all have our days of learning.

Appreciate your input.

[BC_Programmer]

It means he should not have brought it to you to fix.

Agree.

Bad day? We all have our days of learning.

It shouldn't come at the expense of somebody else's machine. If you need an operation you'd probably prefer not to have a heart surgeon who doesn't know the differene between the Aorta and the Pulmonary Artery.

[No-one]

The machine effectively was dead, this guy was trying to give it a new lease of life before his friend probably would have chucked it so give him a bit of break. He obviously has some idea of computers and a rough idea of what is wrong. Even so called expert and professionals do not know much more than what a computer is made up off and can't properly diagnose which peice of hardware is failing.

To comda.

The bleeps generally are part of the POST which stands for Power On Self Test. What they mean dpeend on the board and maybe LED's on the board. Check the documentation, there is a reason for the 4 letter acronym RTFM.

The other option is to buy a POST card which helps troubleshoot such issues. each work slightly differently and cost about £10 of ebay. From that you should be able to diagnose the issue

Hope this helps,

[comda]

thanks but I got another friend to look at it and i checked what 3 beeps mean on the net for that type of board and it said something like sowder iteruption: cjeck for anything metal lying on the motherboard possibly stoping the board from working. We both aggreed it was a dead mainboard and it was time for an upgrade anyways. Thanks for the reply thought.

Comda