-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2006-10-16 at 19:19 -0500, Greg Wallace wrote:
- The computer beeps twice and nothing happens. No bios screen comes up, no disk activity, nothing.
Check the docs on your BIOS to find out exactly what 2 beeps means .
What docs. I got zilch in the way of documentation with this Dell machine, and Dell tech support couldn't tell me what two beeps meant (actually, they took off on a tangent and didn't even try to answer that question, about what I've come to expect from their tech support).
Before doing anything else, like cleaning, testing this or that, replacing components, etc, you'd better find out what those beeps means in your system, because that will tell you at least the area of the problem. The snag is that they are not standardized :-( - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFNDIKtTMYHG2NR9URAq1mAJ9Uz8+wLzjrFqNLFw9kbnOTAegvMwCbBAQS piZboheK4ndxUQh3afhF0Vk= =flm8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----