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Originally posted by MR_5_MR

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Originally posted by msg_plus_freak
Hi,
When i turn my pc on it goes beeeeeeeeeeeep! every 10 seconds and nothing shows up on my monitor.
Has my pc got a spike or what.
Help please!!!!!

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that happened to me just unplug it for a while and then after a while plug it back in and then it should turn on

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This can be caused by a PSU that is to small. When you start up your PC all your components demand some power (peek power) at the same time, if you PSU can't handle such peek it may fail to give some components the power they "request" and thus causes an error in the POST. When you restart your PC, some components still have some power residue (dunno how it is exactly called in English), and when reset/restarted don't require that much power anymore (sometimes), so your PC will start up nicely. Or some components start up in a slightly different order (this is talking in millisecs, or even microsecs) when you do a warm boot compared to a cold boot, also resulting in a different power demand, etc...

All in all, this could be a cause of this beheviour, it isn't thé cause though (loose cables, bad contacts, etc, may also be one of the causes). But you could always try to replace your PSU with a bigger one (PSU don't costs much anymore and a bigger PSU is never money thrown away)

'Power residue' may not be the correct term, but it's probably more understandable than saying all devices have capacitance.

I was thinking whether it's to do with the hardrive not bieng connected. because it says bios and what type it is then it freezes there.

Maybe your problem is the same thing as my friend's PC. I'm not quite sure but i think your harddrive might not be spinning. If you can see the bios info then i don't think the PSU or RAM are the problem

Ahhhhhhhhhh! to much information.
INFORMATION OVERLOAD
sorry it's just that there's loads of problems it could be.Because everyone seems to be helping me[not that it's bad ]
I'm so confused!!!!!!!!!!

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Originally posted by msg_plus_freak
Ahhhhhhhhhh! to much information.
INFORMATION OVERLOAD
sorry it's just that there's loads of problems it could be.Because everyone seems to be helping me[not that it's bad ]
I'm so confused!!!!!!!!!!

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because with all the things you posted (which are actually non related/consistant) you would suspect to get all those different answers. Without decent detailed descriptions of what _exactly_ happens point by point it is impossibe to pinpoint the problem. (And most likely you even do have multiple non related problems)

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
(And most likely you even do have multiple non related problems)

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What do you mean by that?

Because you posted many totally different non related things...

1) repeated beeping every 10 seconds when starting up, nothing else (even not a thing on the moni)...
2) one beep for 2 seconds...
3) two beeps...
4) a browned sticker on the mem chip
5) Bios POST messages do come up on the moni. but freezes after xxx. (xxx because it is not clear at all when it exactly freezes; a POST routine does many stuff)
6) etc...


Diagnosing POST problems remotely is as good as impossible, especially if the person in question doesn't have the knowledge of what is or isn't happening (no offense though! It is just very difficult to explain and advise without resorting to technical terms and stuff and without needing to write pages of explainations of how stuff works in order to get a good description of the problems; it's like trying to help someone who only can drive a car with diagnosing his electronics chip in his car)


The only decent advice we can give you is to go to a PC repear shop or your local PC retailer or whatever...

I agree with cookie

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Originally posted by Savior
I agree with cookie

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Wow, helpful
If you're not going to add anything, then don't.

msg_plus_freak, one thing that may help us is a transcript of what appears on the screen. Then we'll be able to see where the boot stops, and go from there