Computer Beeps Part II

river rat

river rat

BUCKING GOAT
I started a thread a while back and asked "Why does a computer boot up and then freeze up and then steady beep?"

A couple of people had some good advice and a lose card was suspect.

Upon re-sitting the DIMM/SIMM card. The machine actually started to act right.

Then upon further re-boots, it started doing this:

It boots up from a cold boot and the fans run, the hard drive runs, the CD ROM kicks in and the windows boot bar comes up and as soon as desktop appears....it re-boots itself all over again and same thing happens everything makes it to desktop and then.....boots up again. It keeps repeating this cycle.

What gives? :confused:
 
Suz

Suz

33 yrs & we r still n luv
river rat said:
I started a thread a while back and asked "Why does a computer boot up and then freeze up and then steady beep?"

A couple of people had some good advice and a lose card was suspect.

Upon re-sitting the DIMM/SIMM card. The machine actually started to act right.

Then upon further re-boots, it started doing this:

It boots up from a cold boot and the fans run, the hard drive runs, the CD ROM kicks in and the windows boot bar comes up and as soon as desktop appears....it re-boots itself all over again and same thing happens everything makes it to desktop and then.....boots up again. It keeps repeating this cycle.

What gives? :confused:
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Memory has gone bad. Try a new chip,
 
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Mousebaby

Guest
Either that or a nasty virus. Had one that would repeatedly reboot my computer. Had to wipe it clean and start from scratch to get rid of it. I wouldn't even boot to safe mode. Good Luck!
 
GWguy

GWguy

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Or windows has gotten corrupted from the false starts. If you have an option during the boot for Windows Recovery, select that, and at the c: prompt type chkdsk /f.
 
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RadioPatrol

Guest
could be a corrupt registry entry.

to get the standard desktop you need:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

then down where Shell is: "Explorer" or maybe "UserInit"

without the quotes if this is wrong usually you get dumped back to the login screen ....

can you get a good boot in safe mode .... when the system 1st starts up ... press the F8 key several times until you get the boot choices ... then chose SafeMode ...
 
river rat

river rat

BUCKING GOAT
I cleaned it out real good with compressed air and resitted the memory stick.

So, far it seems to be working. But.......








we'll see
 
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Mousebaby

Guest
Ya know, I was wondering how in the heck I am supposed to clean out this machine? It has vents at the top, but I don't really see any at the bottom, so if I blow canned air into the top vents that's just going to blow the dust down into the machine. This sucker is going to be fun cleaning! :faint:
 
dn0121

dn0121

New Member
Mousebaby said:
Ya know, I was wondering how in the heck I am supposed to clean out this machine? It has vents at the top, but I don't really see any at the bottom, so if I blow canned air into the top vents that's just going to blow the dust down into the machine. This sucker is going to be fun cleaning! :faint:
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open case, spray can of air, and suck it out vacuum.
 
StrawberryGal

StrawberryGal

Sweet and Innocent
Mousebaby said:
Ya know, I was wondering how in the heck I am supposed to clean out this machine? It has vents at the top, but I don't really see any at the bottom, so if I blow canned air into the top vents that's just going to blow the dust down into the machine. This sucker is going to be fun cleaning! :faint:
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I can help you to open up the case. I learned how to do it because of my old computer died, so I opened it up and learned alot about it.
 
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RadioPatrol

Guest
StrawberryGal said:
I can help you to open up the case. I learned how to do it because of my old computer died, so I opened it up and learned alot about it.
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I think her NEW computer is an inch and a half think .... laptop esque ..


probably very susceptible to CAT HAIR ............
 
StrawberryGal

StrawberryGal

Sweet and Innocent
RadioPatrol said:
I think her NEW computer is an inch and a half think .... laptop esque ..


probably very susceptible to CAT HAIR ............
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Oh! I wouldn't want to mess with that....

Probably so, but who knows (it could be cat hair, dog hair, dusts, dust mites, food crumbs, etc.)
 
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Mousebaby

Guest
This is my computer, you look at this thing and tell me again HOW do I open it up and clean it. Not as easy to do unless you know what kind of machine your talking about. This thing might be an inch and a half thick. Most of the vents are on top. I am afraid to touch it with a screwdriver let alone open it and clean it! :lmao:

Buy an HP TouchSmart IQ506t series desktop PC from HP
 
dn0121

dn0121

New Member
Mousebaby said:
This is my computer, you look at this thing and tell me again HOW do I open it up and clean it. Not as easy to do unless you know what kind of machine your talking about. This thing might be an inch and a half thick. Most of the vents are on top. I am afraid to touch it with a screwdriver let alone open it and clean it! :lmao:

Buy an HP TouchSmart IQ506t series desktop PC from HP
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well if your afraid to touch it then I can't explain to you how to do it. :whistle:
 
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