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Re: [OT] beep after mucking around inside box



On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 08:18, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> after taking apart every unscrewable component inside my box, dusting
> it, and putting it all back (exactly the way it was, at least i
> thought), my computer now won't boot at all.  i hit the power button,
> and it issues a second-long beep, pauses, beeps again, pauses again,
> and continues until i turn it off.  it does the same thing with a boot
> disk in it. 

The beeping is caused by the POST of your BIOS, the beep sequences
actually have a meaning, take a look here:
http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm

See if you can find out, what your BIOS wants to tell you and if you can
resolve the problem with this information.

Good luck!

Stefan

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"boredom is not a burden anyone should bear"



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