From: "Nolly Unvala" 

Thanks...I re-flashed the bios and still get these darn beeps, but the
system seems to working fine.

I *know* something's gonna bite me soon!

"Tony Ingenoso"  wrote in
message news:3f064794$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> 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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