Pc Doesnt work, just makes beeping noise

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nicolasinsa

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When i was shutting down, my pc froze on the shutdown screen. As My Cd drive stopped working i decided to check inside the tower if everything was fine after trying everything to fix it. I made sure all cables were firmly attached and i switched off the pc.When i switched it back on the cd drive worked again but a beeping noise kept on going off as soon as i switched on the pc. The pc goes on, all lights light up in the tower but nothing shows on my monitor except no video input and all i hear is that beeping noise in 2 second intervals

Please help cause my mom needs to use the pc for her business

Thanks
 
The Axe Dude said:
Double check that RAM, and the graphics card (if it has one) are seated correctly :)
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He means make sure they are pushed firmly down into their slots. Unclip them and re-seat them if you have to. It's a common problem.
 
1 short beep System is OK
2 short beeps POST Error - error code shown on screen No beep Power supply or system board problem Continuous beep Power supply, system board, or keyboard problem Repeating short beeps Power supply or system board problem
1 long, 1 short beep System board problem
1 long, 2 short beeps Display adapter problem (MDA, CGA)
1 long, 3 short beeps Display adapter problem (EGA)
3 long beeps 3270 keyboard card
IBM POST Diagnostic Code Descriptions
Code Description
100 - 199 System Board
200 - 299 Memory
300 - 399 Keyboard
400 - 499 Monochrome Display
500 - 599 Colour/Graphics Display
600 - 699 Floppy-disk drive and/or Adapter
700 - 799 Math Coprocessor
900 - 999 Parallel Printer Port
1000 - 1099 Alternate Printer Adapter
1100 - 1299 Asynchronous Communication Device, Adapter, or Port
1300 - 1399 Game Port
1400 - 1499 Colour/Graphics Printer
1500 - 1599 Synchronous Communication Device, Adapter, or Port
1700 - 1799 Hard Drive and/or Adapter
1800 - 1899 Expansion Unit (XT)
2000 - 2199 Bisynchronous Communication Adapter
2400 - 2599 EGA system-board Video (MCA)
3000 - 3199 LAN Adapter
4800 - 4999 Internal Modem
7000 - 7099 Phoenix BIOS Chips
7300 - 7399 3.5" Disk Drive
8900 - 8999 MIDI Adapter
11200 - 11299 SCSI Adapter
21000 - 21099 SCSI Fixed Disk and Controller
21500 - 21599 SCSI CD-ROM System

AMI BIOS Beep Codes
Code Description

1 Short Beep System OK
2 Short Beeps Parity error in the first 64 KB of memory
3 Short Beeps Memory failure in the first 64 KB
4 Short Beeps Memory failure in the first 64 KB Operational of memory
or Timer 1 on the motherboard is not functioning
5 Short Beeps The CPU on the motherboard generated an error
6 Short Beeps The keyboard controller may be bad. The BIOS cannot switch to protected mode
7 Short Beeps The CPU generated an exception interrupt
8 Short Beeps The system video adapter is either missing, or its memory is faulty
9 Short Beeps The ROM checksum value does not match the value encoded in the BIOS
10 Short Beeps The shutdown register for CMOS RAM failed
11 Short Beeps The external cache is faulty
1 Long, 3 Short Beeps Memory Problems
1 Long, 8 Short Beeps Video Card Problems

Phoenix BIOS Beep Codes
Note - Phoenix BIOS emits three sets of beeps, separated by a brief pause.

Code Description
1-1-3 CMOS read/write failure
1-1-4 ROM BIOS checksum error
1-2-1 Programmable interval timer failure
1-2-2 DMA initialisation failure
1-2-3 DMA page register read/write failure
1-3-1 RAM refresh verification failure
1-3-3 First 64k RAM chip or data line failure
1-3-4 First 64k RAM odd/even logic failure
1-4-1 Address line failure first 64k RAM
1-4-2 Parity failure first 64k RAM
2-_-_ Faulty Memory
3-1-_ Faulty Motherboard
3-2-4 Keyboard controller Test failure
3-3-4 Screen initialisation failure
3-4-1 Screen retrace test failure
3-4-2 Search for video ROM in progress
4-2-1 Timer tick interrupt in progress or failure
4-2-2 Shutdown test in progress or failure
4-2-3 Gate A20 failure
4-2-4 Unexpected interrupt in protected mode
4-3-1 RAM test in progress or failure>ffffh
4-3-2 Faulty Motherboard
4-3-3 Interval timer channel 2 test or failure
4-3-4 Time of Day clock test failure
4-4-1 Serial port test or failure
4-4-2 Parallel port test or failure
4-4-3 Math coprocessor test or failure
Low 1-1-2 System Board select failure
Low 1-1-3 Extended CMOS RAM failure

Got this from google hope it helps, i would check all conections ram,gpu, cables and so on if i were you. EDIT: Yea like the other posters suggested.
 
there is also a flashing light in red on the motherboard just above the graphics card, dont know if that is normal, the beeps are about 3 sec long and go on and on and on
 
nicolasinsa said:
The beeps are loud,long and have about 2 sec intervals between each other
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Count the beeps, and write it down like 1-1-1 or do they go 1-1-3, the numbers 123 representing beeps so one beeb - one beep - 3 beebs( beep,beep,beep):rolleyes:

Sis man bootles, rodent again for dinner?:D
 
You have the KB plugged in and nothing on it pressing a key, or a stuck key. Plug the kb out and try again.
 
plugged the kb out but still the same thing :(

Which part in the tower is the ram, where can i find it ?...sorry dont know too much bout pc's
 
nicolasinsa said:
plugged the kb out but still the same thing :(

Which part in the tower is the ram, where can i find it ?...sorry dont know too much bout pc's
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Please don’t take this the wrong way, but perhaps you shouldn’t fiddle with it too much then, seeing as it’s a “working” pc and not a game box. Get a friend with some knowledge or A+ to help you instead, you might just end up with a lot of damage. :)
 
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