MEANING OF THE BEEP SOUNDS IN A Pc.
Know what each beep sound of your computer means when turning ON your computer.
Those beeps are your BIOS "telling" you that something is wrong with your computer.
- One Beep
-DRAM refresh failure
This may be due to :
- Bad memory chips
- A bad DMA Chip
- Bad memory addressing chips on the motherboard
- Two Beeps
- Parity error or Parity Circuit failure
- Your memory may not be seated properly on the mother board.
>Unplug and plug it properly
- Three Beeps
-Bad memory or bad mother board
- Four beeps
-Timer failure in the RAM.
- Five Beeps
-CPU chip may be dead
- Six Beeps
-Keyboard controller may have failed
- Seven beeps
-CPU is dead. Retry the connections and test.
>Replace the whole motherboard.
- Eight Beeps
-Video card is missing or Bad.
- Nine Beeps
-Damaged ROM BIOS.
>BIOS chip has to be replaced if it persists.
- Ten Beeps
-CMOS shutdown.
>Replace CMOS memory and associated chips.
- Eleven Beeps
-Cache memory test has failed.
>To enable cache memory try CTRL+ALT+SHIFT++(i.e Hit Plus(+) Sign).
- One long Beep and Three short Beeps
-Memory failure
- One long Beep and Eight short Beeps
-Video card failure.
>Try to install video card in another slot.
- No Beeps
>Check Power supply
>Check mother board connections
>Remove all cards except video card and check for system power up
>Insert all cards one at a time and check their operation.
>If system hangs on the installation of a particular card, then it is the
cause for the problem and replace it with another of that type and
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