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Is my pc dead ?

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All was hunky dory onmy pc when suddenly there was an intermitant warbling sound which was followed by a blue screen with loads of text saying there was a serious error and it was beginning physical memory dump.Loads of other text which I can remeber. Anyway I switched the computer off and now all I get is an intermitant beeping noise which repeats every 4 seconds and nothing else. help!!!!!
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  • Browntoa
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    sounds like a hardware failure, those are bios beeps

    is it single beeps or one long one ??

    what make.model PC is it ??

    might be worth opening the case up , blowing out any dust and unplugging any RAM, Graphics cards etc and reseating them
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  • Bettingmad
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    Thanks, the beeps are approx 1 sec in length and repeat every 4 secs. forgotto add that my pcis a compaq pressario
  • Browntoa
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    you need to work out what bios you have, mine normally says Award as it first boots up , can you remember anything like that ??

    then count the beeps and see what it means
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  • ToxC
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    I recomend phoning the manufacturer and asking; thats what I did to help fix my cousins Dell vostro 200 they told me to put the phone next to the PC and they told me that it was ram failure (forgot how many beeps), took the ram out, put it back in everything was back to normal.
  • Bettingmad
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    Browntoa wrote: »
    you need to work out what bios you have, mine normally says Award as it first boots up , can you remember anything like that ??

    then count the beeps and see what it means

    Sorry I cant recall what is says on boot up but the beeps are still going on 10minutes later.
  • Browntoa
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    will do , it's the motherboard saying somethings dead and I'm not playing any more

    try my suggestion of reseating all the components

    if you have 2 sticks of RAM in it try taking one out at a time and trying it, may be one stick of RAM thats died
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  • Bettingmad
    Bettingmad Posts: 715 Forumite
    Never peeked inside a pc before, will remove all leads but are there any other dangers lurking inside before I fiddle about ?
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  • Bettingmad
    Bettingmad Posts: 715 Forumite
    Browntoa wrote: »
    will do , it's the motherboard saying somethings dead and I'm not playing any more

    try my suggestion of reseating all the components

    if you have 2 sticks of RAM in it try taking one out at a time and trying it, may be one stick of RAM thats died

    Thanks Browntoa, took a peek inside the pc and was horrified to see how much dust was in there. I cleaned it all up, removed the ram (proud achievement) replaced it and fired up the computer. All seemed to be going ok, went through the windows xp logo to main page but no task bar or icons appeared and I was unable to do anything further. Booted up in safe mode ok. Went off safe mode and booted up again still nothing. I ran task manager, went through the 'file' tab and clicked new task to start up Firefox and it loaded. Still no task bar or icons and don't know how to retrieve them. Any ideas ?
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