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I have a workstation with Win 98.
During boot it provides the normal P.O.S.T. short beep to indicate all is well however, after the windows splash screen is displayed, it gives a long (about 1 second) beep and I'm stumped.

Anyone have any suggestions?

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by archon285

You don't say whether the system is working correctly, apart from this annoyance.
If it is, I think what is happening is thatyou are getting a partial warning of a condition that then clears itself. Two possibilities: the system thinks it has a power failure because there is a heavy load at this point, which then decreases.
Alternatively, it thinks it has lost the graphics card, and then finds it.

I suggest you look at option 2 first, and see if there are two video cards listed in the control panel i.e. it starts on VGHA, beeps and switches to the more aadvanced version.

If it is a warning of the power getting close to maximum output then the only test is to borrow a higer rated one, see if that cures it and if so, actually spend some money.

by leonard_aj

It actually turned out to be both a weak power supply and a faulty video card.
Thank you all for the assistance.

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