subject: Beep Codes And Steps To Troubleshoot It [print this page] Once in the mid night I wish to watch a movie just to refresh up myself, but as I power on my laptop it start with a beeping sound, I got frightened as if ghost or something else has entered into it, I suddenly switched it off and collects my potential and again tries to open it, the beeping sound again comes, this time I tries to understand it, it seems as if my system wants to say something to me, some kind of code or whatsoever, I switched it off and next day discussed to my friends and search on the internet. I came to find that these are the sound codes which laptop generates when faces any sort of problems.
Power-on Self Test or POST process detects errors within the computer system and relays them to the user, through a cryptic 'beep' language. Every BIOS brand has its own beep code, which you need to access to fix the problem related with your computer.
To decode or interpret the beep code, you need first to determine which BIOS you have. The steps to recognize it are as follows,
Watch your system startup screen for information about the BIOS brand and version, such as Award BIOS v4.51PG.
Use a hardware test-and-reporting utility, such as AMIDiag, CheckIt, or others.
Here I have discuss about AMI BIOS and the steps to fix it are as follows,
Beep signal: 1 long beep.
Interpretation: no error, completion of POST routine.
Beep signal: 1 long, 2 short beeps.
Interpretation: video BIOS ROM failure.
Beep signal: 1 long, 3 short beeps.
Interpretation: memory test has detected an error.
Beep signal: 1 long, 8 short beeps.
Interpretation: video adaptor error.
Beep signal: 2 short beeps.
Interpretation: hardware test failure during POST routine.
Beep signal: 1 short beep.
Interpretation: refresh failure in DRAM due to malfunctioning programmable interrupt timer.
Beep signal: 2 short beeps.
Interpretation: RAM IC malfunction due to parity error in first 64 K memory.
Beep signal: 3 short beeps.
Interpretation: Base memory failure in first 64 K of random access memory IC.
Beep signal: 4 short beeps.
Interpretation: System timer IC failure.
Beep signal: 5 short beeps.
Interpretation: CPU failure.
Beep signal: 6 short beeps.
Interpretation: Keyboard controller IC failure, preventing gate A20 controlled processor switching to protected mode.
Beep signal: 7 short beeps.
Interpretation: Exception error in CPU, due to faulty motherboard circuitry.
Beep signal: 8 short beeps.
Interpretation: Defective system video adapter.
Beep signal: 9 short beeps.
Interpretation: Defective BIOS ROM, check sum error.
Beep signal: 10 short beeps.
Interpretation: CMOS shutdown failure.
Beep signal: 11 short beeps.
Interpretation: Faulty L2 cache.
So these are the ways by which you can decode or interpret the beep signals which you received from your computer and can fix the problems related with it. If you find any sort of difficulty you can even visit site www.impcsupport.com , it provides online window support, technical support, softwares, protection tools and so on.
