On Monday, October 16, 2006 @ 8:30 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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.
I have no idea how to find this out. The Dell tech support took off in a completely different direction when I asked this question, basically ignoring my question about the 2 beeps. I also scoured the Dell website and found nothing. Greg Wallace