beeping error

[mbag92]

We lost power at the house and when I tried to get the pc back up it started making a beeping sound like the emergency vehicles in London. It does not always start right away, it will soemtimes wait until windows 98 starts to load. I have gotten as far as loading the desktop and the system just freezes up, always with that beeping.

[Paleo Pete]

Count the beeps, and give us some system info to go on. Sounds like something got fried, I would bet on memory or video card. The beep code should tell us.

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[ric1]

I'm having exactly the same symptoms - but it happens at irregular times when the computer has already been on for a while and never at boot and only stops it's 'siren' if you restart the computer. It makes no difference if there are any applications running or not.
The system spec is:
Gigabyte GA-7IXE motherboard with AMI BIOS 02/29/2000
amd athlon 800MHz
256MB sdram
Matrox Marvel G400 AGP
oshiba DVD SD-M1222
12 GB ide hdd Samsung

any help would be appreciated.

[tjaymadison]

There is this detailed section in The PC Guide:

Troubleshooting BIOS Beep Codes (http://www.pcguide.com/ts/x/sys/beep/index.htm)


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[ric1]

I checked there and it must come under the 'other code' section which isn't much help.
Has anyone had this problem before and now knows what caused it?

[mjc]

Certain motherboards emit a sort of wailing sound if the CPU heatsink fan has failed, they also will prevent booting in this case. I'm not sure if yours is one of them but you may want to open the case and see if the fan spins when you power on if not then it need to be replaced, also some will do that if there is a three wire fan plugged in.

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