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RE: [SLE] Need help diagnosing hardware problem
- From: "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:29:49 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610170326150.2057@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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The Monday 2006-10-16 at 19:19 -0500, Greg Wallace wrote:
> >> 1) 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 :-(
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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The Monday 2006-10-16 at 19:19 -0500, Greg Wallace wrote:
> >> 1) 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.
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