My hard drive was clicking about a year ago and I put a bunch of stuff from my bro's CPU on my hard drive today, and was reseting my CPU trying to get my LED lights hooked up when it started beeping 3 times is my guess. I have a MSI motherboard. Do you think my hard drive went bad? Thanks for your time.
2007-02-12 14:21:33 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
I would have you check the spec's of your mother board. Every motherboard beeps once to show that the POST performed correctly. 3 times is a code to tell you something is wrong. Let us know what model your Motherboard is, and I will check out the code for you. oh yea, make sure it is 3 beeps too. Checking one of my books, 3 beeps (short) means that the first 64 kb of ram has a problem, and 4 short beeps mean that you should remove your PCI cards, and add them back in one at a time, being one may be bad.
2007-02-12 14:26:25 · answer #1 · answered by Biff Stew 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well is your computer on? if it doesnt even come on, and just beeps, pay attention to the beeps.
how many are long how many are short?
these are beep codes (most of the time) and they each have different meanings...
for a MSI i believe ----
Continues beeps or 1long 2short beeps = possible memory error
• Try re-seating memory or test with different memory
1long 2short or 8short beeps = possible video card problem
• Try re-seating video card, test system with known good video card
or maybe even the base ram failed?
anyways just look up the beep codes on google or something if your curious and those dont help!
2007-02-12 14:41:28 · answer #2 · answered by SSXVegeta 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I might have just answered this if you asked it twice. Anyway, with AMI Bios three beeps is a memory problem. Take it out and reseat it. Phoenix bios 3 beeps means you knocked a chip off the motherboard. Ouch.
-Dio
2007-02-12 14:26:18 · answer #3 · answered by diogenese19348 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your hard drive memory is full thats why ur cpu is keep on beeping... I have the same problem once, and i go to a computer shop where i bought my omputer...
2007-02-12 14:47:14 · answer #4 · answered by jun 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
check to make sure that all the cards are inserted all the way, to include the sound card, video card, memory, ect. then check to make sure that the CPU fan is hooked up to the motherboard. hope this helps
2007-02-12 14:25:26 · answer #5 · answered by garrettandarlene 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋