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Che Monro
| | Posted on Thursday, June 10, 2004 - 6:19 pm: | |
I'm the technician in a computeter store in Australia. I'm working on a HP iMedia M838 P4 machine. The machine has an intermittant fault on startup - after the bios splash screen appears - HP splash screen in this case - the screen goes black and the machine emits a continuous series of rapid beeps from the speaker:
beepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeep....
The beep sounds more like a telephone noise than a computer noise - it sounds like the "STD" beeps we have out here, but it goes on longer.
It then pauses and does it again. After which a white bar appears and goes across the black screen - a bit like a software install line.
After this the machine boots normally.
This doesn't happen all the time, either, just sometimes, but of course the customer isn't happy. I've rung HP tech support, and their advice is to re-install the bios and check the seating of the graphics card - a Radeon 9600.
Has anyone ever encountered something like this? |
Che Monro
| | Posted on Thursday, June 10, 2004 - 11:03 pm: | |
It was the voltage alarm. |
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