Showing posts with label PC repair. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PC repair. Show all posts

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Beeps when turning on your computer

The PC won't turn on properly, instead you hear patterns of beeps. They are actually built-in diagnostic alerts. They can tell you what's wrong. I got this from http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1223 while googling what those beeps mean.

  • No beep - no power, loose peripherals, bad motherboard or cpu
  • One beep - ok
  • One long, one short - motherboard problem
  • 1 long, 2 short - video problem
  • 1 long, 3 short - video problem
  • 3 long - keyboard error
  • Repeated long - memory error
  • Continuous high, low - CPU overheating

I was trying to fix some old PC's in the lab since the students were complaining only 2 were working. Heard repeated long beeps in three computers - memory problem. Opened the hatch and placed the RAMS in a different slot and made sure they were snug and completely in.

Et voila! They worked!!!