[Snooky]

My laptop has been playing up for a wee while - shutting itself down, a 'blue screen fatal error' message (that it recovered from so not fatal...then).

Last night I switched it on and I got black screen and one long beep followed by two shorter beeps (really loud!). I recall from when my motherboard packed it in 18 months ago folk telling me what the beeps actually represent. I fear that it is dead which is annoying after only 18 months since I had a new motherboard installed.

Interested if I can get a diagnosis from one of the experts here!

Cheers

John

[NFS]

Originally Posted by Snooky

My laptop has been playing up for a wee while - shutting itself down, a 'blue screen fatal error' message (that it recovered from so not fatal...then).

Last night I switched it on and I got black screen and one long beep followed by two shorter beeps (really loud!). I recall from when my motherboard packed it in 18 months ago folk telling me what the beeps actually represent. I fear that it is dead which is annoying after only 18 months since I had a new motherboard installed.

Interested if I can get a diagnosis from one of the experts here!

Cheers

John

If you could get back to the blue screen message and write down the code numbers given you would stand a chance of diagnosing the fault.

Would need to know the exact model of laptop. A quick search on google suggests that those beeps probably mean a display adaptor problem. Since this is probably integral to the motherboard a replacement may not be possible, but a repair could be:

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1223

[chinoxs203]

the link above is good which states your beeping is a video card driver problem. but depending on your laptop model then it could be a different issue

can you boot into safemode? reboot machine and hit f8 before the machine logo shows

[Snooky]

Originally Posted by NFS

If you could get back to the blue screen message and write down the code numbers given you would stand a chance of diagnosing the fault.

Would need to know the exact model of laptop. A quick search on google suggests that those beeps probably mean a display adaptor problem. Since this is probably integral to the motherboard a replacement may not be possible, but a repair could be:

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1223

Cheers NFS - good link. My laptop is an HP Pavilion Entertainment PC (dv2000 Series). I've had it about 3 years and midway through that period it made similar beeps (I think) and needed as new motherboard - which is what I read from the link - long beep followed by two short beeps.

Originally Posted by chinoxs203

the link above is good which states your beeping is a video card driver problem. but depending on your laptop model then it could be a different issue

can you boot into safemode? reboot machine and hit f8 before the machine logo shows

Thanks chinoxs. I tried that but nothing. Just the same long followed by 2 shorts. Holding the F8 down just made it more angry... a couple of extra short beeps after the regular pattern!

[chinoxs203]

Those angry beeps could be normal angry beeps. If you don't hit f8 at the right time it will beep at you after the screen goes black. If you can get into safe mode we can try to remove the video driver from device manager.