Computer Won't Boot with INCREASING regularity?

[srcodling]

Hi!

I've been installing windows 98, office 2000, corel suite, etc. on my PIII-500 with 256megs ram, and while installing when it reboots, this morning it powered off, powered on, then gave three beeps (one longer, two shorter), a pause, and then two lower pitched beeps (like a "you lose" at the end of a video game)... it was checking the disk drives, but the screen was totally blank...

i turned the power off, then on, and it booted up with no problem except that now it said the ram was 66mhz instead of 100mhz...

the next time it wouldn't boot, i had to power off/on 5-6 times before it booted again..

the next time, about 15-20 times and then it booted...

now, it won't boot and i've proabably turned the power off/on about 100 times, with all sorts of waiting intervals...

anybody know anything that might help???

much obliged,
steve.

[gidyeo]

hi srcodling and welcome http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/wink.gif

there is once my collegues computer face a "quite-similar" problem, whenever the PC boots, it kept on beeping in a funny tone/tune. After the technician check for her, they found that the Processor's fan is faulty (bcos of dust accumulate) and when we change a new fan the 'beeping' went off and everything run smoothly.

The beeping sometimes is a 'siren' or a warning program in the BIOS if certain thing happen or fail to function. Maybe u can tell us more about ur problem (maybe its a power supply problem).

Hope this will give u some help, or anyone else knows why?

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[Paleo Pete]

One long, two short means video card or video memory error. Try reseating your video card, and see if that helps, if not, replace the video card.

Two beeps means some sort of initialization error, DMA, ROM, Floppy, Serial or Parralell port. Reseating the memory or removing the new memory, if any, might help.

No beeps means bad power supply or motherboard.

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[jcift]

I am in agreeance with GIDYEO, it could very easily be the CPU fan. I had the problem with my pc where my system would reboot itself (of course with no error messages, whichwould make things even more difficult) and I found that I had (actually still have) a faulty CPU fan. There are a couple of things you can do here:

1. Go to your computer's manufacturer and download an upgrade for your motherboard (call your tech support about the specific product that you need to download, or if you don't know what you are doing, you can quickly send your entire system to H@LL!). This may solve your problem. Or,

2. Go into the BIOS during the bootup and disable the external cache. This will slow your system response time down a bit (and believe me, you will notice it), but your system will be up and running much longer, possibly without having to reboot at all. If this works, this should be used as a temporary fix, until you are able to get a new CPU. And like Paleo Pete said, it could be a video card problem, bad power supply, or bad motherboard (God forbid!).

If you are still having problems, try these suggestions. Let me know how it turns out.... Good Luck. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/wink.gif