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  • July 8, 2002 at 12:34 pm #2332380

    Beep determination

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    by pccoaching · about 21 years, 9 months ago

    I have a PII with 128MB of memory that will POST and then when it gets to the Windows98 screen it chugs for a while and then lets out a continuous beep. It has a Phoenix bios and the codes for that bios don’t indicate any long continuous beep. The original ones for IBM machines however show a continuous as being the power supply or motherboard. The power supply was tested with a load tester and the light was green so the PS is okay. And the system will boot into Safe Mode. Could it be the motherboard even though I can boot into safe mode?

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    • July 8, 2002 at 12:41 pm #3593086

      Beep determination

      by still_learning · about 21 years, 9 months ago

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      The beep codes that you refer to apply to POST. The long beep that you are getting when Windows attempts to load indicates an error in the Windows startup. I would recommend pressing F8 to get into safe mode and do some troubleshooting. Hope this helps.

    • July 8, 2002 at 2:21 pm #3593071

      Beep determination

      by abarney · about 21 years, 9 months ago

      In reply to Beep determination

      Get a DOS boot floppy, In setup make the floppy Drive the first boot device and see if the machine will boot to DOS. if so Re install windows and try again

    • July 10, 2002 at 4:16 am #3593616

      Beep determination

      by hjs · about 21 years, 9 months ago

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      Yep. This is a software issue. Answer 1 is correct. Beep codes are only during POST. I would have to think that you must have installed something. If so then go into safe mode and uninstall it. If not, reinstall the OS over the top.

    • July 10, 2002 at 4:44 am #3593602

      Beep determination

      by pccoaching · about 21 years, 9 months ago

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      thank you all for your replies…the problem was that the person installed McAfee on top of another McAfee which she thought she had uninstalled. Color me embarrassed because as soon as you mentioned the beeps were for POST only I knew that was correct and was trying to figure out the problem! All fixed…thanks again.

    • July 10, 2002 at 4:46 am #3593598

      Beep determination

      by pccoaching · about 21 years, 9 months ago

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