help please ....

knowlesy · 18 Mar 2006 at 14:37

basicaly its a basic windows xp home system bought from the shop i dont know the exact specs but it dosent have any more than 256mb worth of ram ... today it was turned on and nothing is displayed on the screen and the internal speaker just constantly bleeps so what is wrong any suggestions ..... ???? the comp i think is 2 years old

Rob43 · 18 Mar 2006 at 15:02

Is it just one constant beep ,or a repeating one ?

knowlesy · 19 Mar 2006 at 01:38

repeating one

Stupido · 20 Mar 2006 at 01:57

ram or cpu .

check all are seated properly.if looks ok try swapping o
ut the am

stvmor · 20 Mar 2006 at 02:06

knowlesy said:
basicaly its a basic windows xp home system bought from the shop i dont know the exact specs but it dosent have any more than 256mb worth of ram ... today it was turned on and nothing is displayed on the screen and the internal speaker just constantly bleeps so what is wrong any suggestions ..... ???? the comp i think is 2 years old

Is it still under warranty? If so take it back first or you will probably invalidate it! :eek:

knowlesy · 20 Mar 2006 at 13:43

out of warranty .....

pcfan · 20 Mar 2006 at 14:15

Check to see if the ram has been dislodged and the CPU is seated fully. Also check to see if the graphics card (If not on board) is fully pushed in.

stvmor · 20 Mar 2006 at 15:57

pcfan said:
Check to see if the ram has been dislodged and the CPU is seated fully. Also check to see if the graphics card (If not on board) is fully pushed in.

Yes, if this doesn't work remove all components and connections, blow out or suck out sockets with hoover and reassemble (do this one part at a time if you're not confident).
The beep is usually CPU or RAM but it can also be a motherboard fault or just about anything! So, if the above fails try starting the pc without RAM and see if the beep is the same. Then try with the RAM but no Graphics then no CPU then anything else you can think of to narrow down the problem!

stvmor · 20 Mar 2006 at 16:00

Oops, have you tried resetting the CMOS (usually by shorting a jumper whilst machine is turned off)

knowlesy · 21 Mar 2006 at 00:32

i can find the cmos i was looking but couldnt find it i found what may resemble the cmos restarter switch but it wasnt labeld like my mobo and my other pcs mbo so i dunno =S

stvmor said:
Yes, if this doesn't work remove all components and connections, blow out or suck out sockets with hoover and reassemble (do this one part at a time if you're not confident).
The beep is usually CPU or RAM but it can also be a motherboard fault or just about anything! So, if the above fails try starting the pc without RAM and see if the beep is the same. Then try with the RAM but no Graphics then no CPU then anything else you can think of to narrow down the problem!

i shall try thanks man !!!!

stvmor · 21 Mar 2006 at 10:34

Knowlsey, post the spec's for the machine, especially the mobo model?

Hodders · 21 Mar 2006 at 12:15

I had exactly this and it turned out to be the ram - try removing one stick (assuming it has two). If that doesn't help try putting the first one back in and removing the other.

Good luck.