Re: startup
- From: Lem <lemp40@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:21:55 -0500
blarney8@.verizon.net wrote:
My wife's computer beeps twice and won't boot up. If I were to make a
MS-Dos startup disk how would I get into windows to create a restore
point. Will this work or do I have to try something else?
THank you.
Beeps from the computer's speaker as it is booting up are from the "Power On Self Test" (POST) routine that is part of the BIOS. These generally indicate hardware problems. The beep codes differ for different BIOS manufacturers, but 2 beeps probably means an AMI BIOS reporting a memory parity error. Did you recently add more RAM?
For more info: http://www.pcguide.com/ts/x/sys/beep/index-i.htm
And no, if this is your problem, using a generic DOS startup disk won't help, although you might try going to http://www.memtest.org/ and making either a boot floppy or a boot CD to test the memory http://www.memtest.org/#downiso
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Lem -- MS-MVP - Networking
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