The Basic Toubleshooting with Beep Sound

These are the Basic Beep Sounds you can find with your Desktop Systems and their Solutions.
Do this with your own risk.

Example beep code:	Description of beep sounds at bootup:
1-2-X	One beep (Machine is Ok) A pause (or break) Two beeps (Check your BIOS) A pause (or break) Any number of beeps
4	Four continuous beeps (Check your Video card is plugged correctly or plugged loose connection.

Beep error code:	Action / Run diagnosics on the following components:
1-1-3 CMOS read/write error	1. Run Setup 2. System Board
1-1-4 ROM BIOS check error	1. System Board
1-2-X DMA error	1. System Board
1-3-X	1. Memory Module 2. System Board
1-4-4	1. Keyboard 2. System Board
1-4-X Error detected in first 64 KB of RAM.	1. Memory Module 2. System Board
2-1-1, 2-1-2	1. Run Setup 2. System Board
2-1-X First 64 KB of RAM failed.	1. Memory Module 2. System Board
2-2-2	1. Video Adapter (if installed) 2. System Board
2-2-X First 64 KB of RAM failed.	1. Memory Module 2. System Board
2-3-X	1. Memory Module 2. System Board
2-4-X	1. Run Setup 2. Memory Module 3. System Board
3-1-X DMA register failed.	1. System Board
3-2-4 Keyboard controller failed.	1. System Board 2. Keyboard
3-3-4 Screen initialization failed.	1. Video Adapter (if installed) 2. System Board 3. Display

3-4-1 Screen retrace lest detected an error.	1. Video Adapter (if installed) 2. System Board 3. Display
3-4-2 POST is searching for video ROM.	1. Video Adapter (if installed) 2. System Board
4	1. Video Adapter (if installed) 2. System Board
All other beep code sequences.	1. System Board
One long and one short beep during POST. Base 640 KB memory error or shadow RAM error.	1. Memory Module 2. System Board
One long beep and two or three short beeps during POST.(Video error)	1. Video Adapter (if installed) 2. System Board
Three short beeps during POST.	1. See "System board memory" on page 62. 2. System Board
Continuous beep.	1. System Board
Repeating short beeps.	1. Keyboard stuck key? 2. Keyboard Cable 3. System Board

No beep symptoms

Notes:

• Machine types 6268, 6278, 6288, 6338 default to come up quiet (i.e. No beep and no memory count and checkpoint code display) when no errors are detected by POST.
• To enable Beep and memory count and checkpoint code display when a successful POST occurs, set Power-on Status to Enable in the F1 Setup Utility program.

No beep symptom:	Action / Run diagnosics on the following components:
No beep during POST but computer works correctly.	1. System Board
No beep during POST	1. System Board 2. Memory Module 3. Any Adapter or Device 4. Riser Card 5. Power Cord 6. Power Supply

Hope this helps you to find the problem with your computer.