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From: RnR on 20 Jan 2010 07:41 On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:59:25 -0500, "Bob Levine" <invalid(a)invalid.com> wrote: > > >"Christopher Muto" <muto(a)worldnet.att.net> wrote in message >news:UZKdnRM1--GrzsvWnZ2dnUVZ_vRi4p2d(a)speakeasy.net... >> Bob Levine wrote: >>> "Bob Levine" <invalid(a)invalid.com> wrote in message >>> news:hivvh2$hst$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... >>>> I'm having quite the time finding a key to beep codes for a Studio >>>> Desktop. I have a customer having some issues with the video on this >>>> machine. It gives one beep followed by a pause and then two quick beeps. >>>> >>>> Anyone know where I can find those codes? >>>> >>>> Bob >>> >>> Update: The video card was replaced and everything seems fine. But that >>> one beep, two beeps is still there. >>> >>> Going to pop over there tomorrow or Thursday to check it out. >>> >>> Bob >> >> enter the bios and press alt-f to select factory defaults. > >I'll give it a whirl...thanks, > >Bob Bob, FWIW, that URL I gave earlier has an added post and the last post said that Dell recommended a replacement board and memory. I concur after reading the entire URL. Many claimed that the video card nor bios version did nothing to fix the problem. One had the problem on a 3 day old system.
From: Bob Levine on 20 Jan 2010 08:20 "RnR" <rnrtexas(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:7htdl597ni50aadeu3nal26ei0mp03ldjo(a)4ax.com... > Bob, FWIW, that URL I gave earlier has an added post and the last post > said that Dell recommended a replacement board and memory. > > I concur after reading the entire URL. Many claimed that the video > card nor bios version did nothing to fix the problem. One had the > problem on a 3 day old system. We'll see what happens. But this machine has that one beat. It was one day old. But that's actually pretty typical in cases like this. Defective parts tend to go pretty quickly. Bob
From: Ben Myers on 20 Jan 2010 09:06
Bob Levine wrote: > "RnR" <rnrtexas(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > news:7htdl597ni50aadeu3nal26ei0mp03ldjo(a)4ax.com... > >> Bob, FWIW, that URL I gave earlier has an added post and the last post >> said that Dell recommended a replacement board and memory. >> >> I concur after reading the entire URL. Many claimed that the video >> card nor bios version did nothing to fix the problem. One had the >> problem on a 3 day old system. > > We'll see what happens. But this machine has that one beat. It was one > day old. > > But that's actually pretty typical in cases like this. Defective parts > tend to go pretty quickly. > > Bob In the computer biz, this is called "infant mortality"... Ben Myers |