From: "Tony Ingenoso" 

http://www.bioscentral.com/beepcodes/awardbeep.htm

Bottom of that page has a comment about 5 beeps on an award BIOS indicating
a corrupted BIOS.  Lots of other stuff to investigate on that site too...

"Nolly Unvala"  wrote in message
news:3f061ca1{at}w3.nls.net...
> It's beeping at me!
>
> Usually when I reboot my primary workstation/server at home, I walk away,
> putter around, come back later and log on.  This evening I didn't and
> happened to be near the machine when I heard 5 short beeps several seconds
> after the login prompt.  Not sure if I was hearing things and nerves
> tingling,  I repeated the boot twice more and sure enough, the same 5 short
> beeps every time!
>
> What the heck does this mean?  Are these BIOS beeps?   I thought those beeps
> were reserved for the initial sequence during POST.
>
> Windows 2000 Pro O/S, SP4 installed
>  when this bleeping beeping started!>
>
>

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