by bucketman on April 15th, 2007

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My PC has recently decided to act up. If it actually starts up, after a few minutes the screen goes blank, it beeps at me 5 times, and the HDD light stays on. Sometimes, at startup, it just beeps 5 times and the HDD goes on continuously.

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  • by Karl Plesz on April 16th, 2007

    Karl Plesz

    It depends on your BIOS brand:

    http://www.pchell.com/hardware/beepcodes.shtml

    But the jury says CPU or motherboard related. Time for a pro to look at it.

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  • by Soniq on April 15th, 2007

    Soniq

    Given only that information it sounds to me like a bad hard drive...

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  • by Dragonfly on May 20th, 2007

    Dragonfly

    BEEP CODE MEANING POSSIBLE CAUSE
    1 Beep (No video) Memory refresh failure Bad memory
    2 Beeps Memory parity error Bad memory
    3 Beeps Base 64K mem failure Bad memory
    4 Beeps Timer not operational Bad motherboard
    5 Beeps Processor error Bad processor
    6 Beeps 8042 Gate A20 failure Bad CPU or Motherboard
    7 Beeps Processor exception Bad processor
    8 Beeps Video memory error Bad video card or memory
    9 Beeps ROM checksum error Bad BIOS
    10 Beeps CMOS checksum error Bad motherboard
    11 Beeps Cache memory bad Bad CPU or motherboard

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  • by Redundant on April 15th, 2007

    Redundant

    try going to restore in your pc to a point before this all happened

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