on Sun, 29 Dec 2002 08:35:44AM +0100, Stefan Radomski insinuated:
> 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.
Okay, thanks. I looked on that page, and on hp.com's webpage (i have
a 2.5-year old Pavilion). As i mentioned before, the beeping isn't
telling me much -- it is an incessant series of beeps, about one
second long each, followed by a pause. HP's webpage (it's using
Phoenix BIOS) gives lots of different patterns of beeps, but none
matching straight-up incessant beeping -- last time i turned it on, i
counted 27 identical beeps before i gave up.
i've plugged in everything and reseated everything i can find to
reseat. should i fork over the $30 HP wants to give technical support
for an out-of-warranty product? should i take it into a shop?
thanks again,
</nori>
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