[pchelpers] Re: beep..... pause.... beep beep
- From: "Jonathan Setcer" <jsetcer@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 16:46:22 -0600
I think it is a bad video card. Or something is not pluged in properly.
maybe even half the power if it has two plugs from the p.s. to the mother
board.
I also think if RAM is suspect you could remove ALL the ram and attempt to
boot to a floppy. It will hang up at some point if the floppy includes the
utility to make a ram drive and find the c.d. player etc., but at least you
will see SOMETHING on the screen before that happens--- unless the video
card is bad......
73 & Agape, J. Setcer N5QJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Ford" <john.ford1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 2:27 PM
Subject: [pchelpers] Re: beep..... pause.... beep beep
>
> Don,
> With Compaq one never knows if those beeps mean anything. In some cases it
> can and others it is meaningless. What I find most intriguing is that you
> never see anything on your monitor. If you already have the monitor on and
> you try to boot the computer, do you see anything flash at all on the
> monitor?
>
> My suggestion is this, insert a floppy disk into the drive with a disk
that
> has system files on it and allow the computer to try to boot from that
> floppy. IF it boots you should be able to see other things that may or may
> not be working on this system. Also I just thought of another approach you
> might use, take out all of the SIMMS and only insert one on the first SIMM
> slot and then try to boot the computer. You could try by using the method
> described above or allowing the HD to do its thing.
>
> If you get it to work, that is boot, or are able to see the BIOS of this
> computer, the BIOS may show you what is and is not working on the
computer.
> You may even have bad BIOS chips causing this problem. Please keep us up
to
> date on your progress or lack thereof.
>
> John F
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pchelpers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:pchelpers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Donald Bieber
> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 1:18 PM
> To: pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [pchelpers] beep..... pause.... beep beep
>
>
>
> When I go to start a Compaq computer and get a
> beep..... pause.... beep beep
>
> What's it telling me?
>
> The floppy is connected, I tried different DIMMs It has a SCSI drive, I
> assume as the "C" drive, but whether I use it to try to start it or
> disconnect it and use either one of the onboard IDE sockets, I get the
> same beep.
>
> At least that's the way it was with the IDE drive, I think maybe with the
> SCSI drive it did nothing.
>
> AND I've never got anything on the monitor, and yes, it's plugged in
> :-), that "plugged in" part was a joke.
>
> cu,
> Don Bieber, The-Picture-Man
>
> PS Red meat is not bad for you. Fuzzy green meat is bad for you.
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