On Monday, October 16, 2006 @ 9:17 PM, M Harris wrote:
The Dell tech support took off in a completely different direction when I asked this question, basically ignoring my question about the 2 beeps. Usually the 2 beeps means that the bios has detected a hardware change. This can be the result of a bad memory post, failed keyboard init, or dead cmos battery as examples. Can you see the boot-up bios messages when it beeps and hangs... or are
On Monday 16 October 2006 21:04, Greg Wallace wrote: they hidden behind some proprietary splash?
I see nothing. The disk is spinning and the machine is apparently booting, but the screen is completely blank.
You might try changing the cmos battery if its older than (3) years.
Does a desktop machine have a cmos battery? If so, could you tell me how to find it?
-- Kind regards,
M Harris <><
Thanks, Greg Wallace