When the computer sends out more than one beep, it usually means something is wrong at the hardware level. The computer may not beep or generate a series of beeps in a fixed pattern. Some are ...

I fixed the problem. I noticed that the PC Health status thing quit polling and saw my CPU temp shoot up to 59 celcius. I rechecked my heatsink and saw I had installed it backwards with the notch on ...

My S2460(tiger MP) has always done this beep when booting. Its one logn beep followed by 3 short beeps. I tried removing everything except the video card, processors and RAM and it still did it. Then ...

Each time a user turns on his or her computer, the BIOS gathers information about the major system components and performs a special test called the Power On Self Test (POST) to make sure that each ...

The sounds your PC tower makes when you reboot or turn your PC on are not always noises you can simply ignore. Before your PC boots its operating system, the motherboard runs a suite of diagnostic ...

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When you encounter a BIOS POST error code (head over to Oracle.com for a list of POST codes and their descriptions), it’s usually accompanied by a single or more ...