I am getting continues beep sound when I turn on my laptop
I am getting continues beep sound when I turn on my laptop. It says press F2 or F12After pressing F2 or F12, Nothing happens. Any advice?
I think you are getting a beep sound (error) when you turn on the laptop because of a defective keyboard. Most likely a key or keys got stuck causing the laptop to make a beep error. You can try to disconnect the keyboard from the system board and turn on the laptop without the keyboard connected. If the laptop will boots fine, then the keyboard is your problem.
February 10th, 2007 at 11:54 am
My laptop starts beeping continuously as well when the Windows desktop interface appears when switched on. Everything works fine, except that nothing appears when I type and the beeping sound accelerates when i randomly press a few keys. I do not hear the sounds when the speakers are muted. Really appreciate any ideas/suggestions. Thanks!
February 10th, 2007 at 5:12 am
My laptop makes ominous beeps:
I just upgraded my hp pavilion ze4500AMD with a new seagate 60GB HD, and replaced a dead battery. A few days later I started hearing a beep every few minutes coming from the laptop. It’s not coming from the voice card or from the pc speaker (i muted both of them), and it’s not because the battery is low, because it’s full and works very well (and the beep also sounds when the AC is connected). I ran chkdsk /f with no special results. Other than that there’s nothing wrong with the functioning of the laptop. Any ideas?
February 8th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
Jessica,
I think you are not alone. I republished your question here and posted some suggestions too. I think you have a problem with memory.
February 8th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
I hope someone can help me on this one!
I recently accuired a Dell latitude cpi D266xt
The ac connector tested fine (hooked it to another cpi and worked fine).
I press the power on, the power light comes on the hard drive starts up but all three of the lock keys light up and system beeps 5 – 1 -2 (five long beeps, pause, 1 long, pause, 2 long) then it shuts down completely. This system never gets past this point, I’ve tried pushing down on the keyboard, I’ve disassembled it and checked connections and still get these beeps! It’s driving me looney
If anyone has an idea I would love to hear it.
January 29th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
My Dell Inspiron 1100: when I push the on-off button, the caps lock and numbers lock light turn on and the fan starts running. After eight seconds, the fan stops, the lights go out and machine fails to boot up. This can happen 20 times before the things boots. Soemtimes when I leave it in a cooler spot it boots sooner than 20 attempts.
January 28th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
kiltsman,
3 long beeps on start up might indicate a memory problem. Reseat the memory module, try moving it from one slot to another. If you have 2 memory modules installed, remove them one by one and test the notebook again.
January 28th, 2007 at 7:10 am
hi i turn my laptop on and the only thing i get is 3 long bleeps and a blank screen. can any one help me
January 26th, 2007 at 8:15 am
Kai & Mario:
I have the same problem with my HP Pavilion d1000t. HP “customer service” has been absolutely no help. Please be sure to post here if you are able to find a cure.
-eb
January 25th, 2007 at 8:30 am
Kai,
I also have an Acer Aspire 3000 and it does the same thing. It beeps randomly. Some days once an hour and other days doesn’t beep at all. The system won’t crash or anything, it keeps working fine. Do you know what it is?
January 14th, 2007 at 7:18 am
Thank you so much. I guess I just needed to hear that from a pro. Note to self, don’t drink and compute.
January 13th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
Jacob,
Most likely when you spilled beer, it went all the way down to the system board. The keyboard plugs directly into the system board, and if your new keyboard didn’t fix the problem, it must be an issue with the system board. Sorry, but I think the system board has been damaged and must be replaced. I don’t know what else could be wrong.
January 13th, 2007 at 8:05 pm
I have a HP ZD8000 laptop which beeps rapidly and continuously while booting through the bios and into windows. Just like a stuck key (Beer was spilled in and on the keyboard tray). Replaced the keyboard with a new one from HP and it still does it. Once in windows, the beeping stops, but when I try to type in notepad and all I get are “//////////////////////” continously. So somewhere past the keyboard a signal is being sent. Anyway to kill this or trip the system. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
January 12th, 2007 at 3:27 am
I have a hp dv6000t, which recently gave me 3 beeps. One long beep, and two short ones. The screen dosen’t display, but I can hear windows boot up. Sometimes I would cut it off and turn it back on again, and it boots up fine, picture and all. I took it to a computer shop and they told me that i neede to replace the motherboard, hopefully it is just a loose connection, because i checked on what the 3 beeps are and it looks likes an adapter problem. Help!
January 10th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
I have a Compaq Armada 110 which always give a beep when power on but cannot see any error message. It is using Windows ME. I have found the built-in mouse pad faulty, but even when connected an USB mouse, it still beeps during power on.
January 8th, 2007 at 7:33 am
Hello again, whilst in BIOS and closing the lid, the laptop does not ring. I also changed some settings in control pannel from switching to stand by when the lid is closed, to do nothing when the lid is closed. Now when I close the lid, the ringing does not occur all of the time, only in about 2/5 tries.
Thanks for your help
January 7th, 2007 at 11:24 am
Rebecca,
Will it ring only in Windows? Enter the BIOS setup menu on startup and try closing the lid in there. Usually you can do that if you press F1 or F2 on any other key as soon as you turn on the laptop. When you turn on the laptop, you should see on the screen with key to press to enter the setup. Does your laptop still ring while you are in the BIOS setup?
January 5th, 2007 at 11:36 am
Hi, I have an EI System 3083 which was given to me at Christmas. Everything is working fine apart from when I close the lid I hear a constant ringing until I re-open the lid. There are no pauses in the ringing/alarm which I hear but the closer I get to completlty closing the lid, the louder the alarm is. When I re-open the lid, everything is fine, there are no errors on screen or any signs of a problem. The sound occurs both whilst shutting down and running when I close the lid.
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated, I have seen no other cases on the web. Thanks
January 1st, 2007 at 8:26 pm
Gregg,
Make sure the new memory module is installed properly and reseat it just in case. Move it from one slot to the other (if it’s available). If it doesn’t help install the old module back and test the laptop again. It’s not likely, but possible that the new memory module is defective.
December 31st, 2006 at 3:21 am
I have a toshiba satellite 1100, needs more memory so I removed cover to check memory type and then replaced it. When i went to start the laptop the screen stayed black and sounded a beep code (3 beeps -space-3 beeps-space-1beep) could it be tghe CMOS battery? Any ideas.
December 28th, 2006 at 8:19 pm
Kai,
Never seen something like this before. I don’t think that beep is coming from the hard drive disk, most likely the internal speaker is located somewhere close to the hard drive.
What if you remove the battery and run the laptop just on the AC power. May be beeps are somehow related to charging/discharging the battery?
Check the BIOS version installed on your laptop and find out if there is a newer version. Upgrade/reflash the BIOS.
December 28th, 2006 at 11:07 am
I hope you can help me. Tech support has yet to contact me after two weeks.
I have an Acer Aspire 3000 laptop. It just loves to beep (sounds like a bios beep) at random intervals while using it. I know it’s not from any stuck keys with the keyboard, and it sounds like it is coming from the hardrive disk. There are no error messages. There is no rhyme or reason to its beeping. There is no predictable way to determine when it will beep. It will beep whether someone is using it at the time or just sitting idle in the room, nor does it matter how memory intensive any of the programs running at the time it beeps. It will beep whether someone is playng a game, using Notepad, or as stated above, just sitting idle on the desktop with nothing running aside from what a computer needs on to run.
I hope you can help because this beeping is grating on the nerves. Please help, laptopfreak.
December 16th, 2006 at 9:48 am
Francesca,
I think you might have a stuck keyboard key. Unfortunately it’s necessary to open the laptop to troubleshoot the problem. You’ll have to disconnect the keyboard and boot the laptop without it to find out if you have a faulty keyboard. If the laptop boots fine, then you’ll have to replace the keyboard.
Here’s what you can try before you remove the keyboard. Turn off the laptop and press on each key for a few times, make sure that all keys move freely. Try to boot the laptop again.
December 16th, 2006 at 9:36 am
Aldi,
Check out the link I posted in the comment 2, it has a list of beep errors for different BIOS. Find out with BIOS you have on your laptop and what the error code means.
It could be memory problem. Reseat the memory module/modules and test the laptop again.
December 15th, 2006 at 7:18 pm
I wonder if you can help me. My fujitsu-siemens M740 beeps continually at start up, and wont boot properly, it’s a continusous short beeping. You cannot enter the bios either. I have checked the memory modules, the’yre ok.Any ideas?? I read somewhere about a ‘hard reset’, but don’t know how to do it, thanks,Francesca
December 15th, 2006 at 6:30 pm
i have a acer travelmate 371TCi, when i tried to turn it on nothing happens but it makes 4 beep sound (short beep with a couple second interval), fan n harddrive (i think) are buzzing. after that it turn off by it self..monitor shows nothing..need help please..thnx
December 14th, 2006 at 3:17 pm
I have a Dell E1505 laptop. My laptop makes a “thick” beep sound occasionally. Not when i start the laptop.Any suggestions?Thanks.
December 14th, 2006 at 1:06 am
Martin,
Probably it’s just a loose connection, not a fried motherboard. Make sure that all cables are properly connected and all devices are properly seated.
December 12th, 2006 at 3:24 pm
Hi i have a novatech laptop, not sure of the model, got given it by my borther after he told me it overheating issues, at least that was what he thought was wrong with it, i have checked it all out and dismanlted the lot with out to much trouble reaplcing the heat tranfser pad with some heat transfer goop (not the technical term i know
), after putting the whole machine bar the keyboard back together when i try and boot it up i get a continous beep, the screen doen’t seem to be powering up at all and none of the ancillaries such as HD floopy or DVD seem to do anything either, does this sound like a fried Mobo?,
any help would be most grateful .
thanks
slack
November 30th, 2006 at 7:03 pm
Richard,
What kind of beeps does it make, like a stuck keyboard key or a BIOS error code? Here’s a list of Phoenix BIOS beep codes, it might help to figure out a faulty module. I would try re-flashing/upgrading the BIOS. Download the latest BIOS from the Toshiba website and make a bootable floppy or CD. I’m not sure if it will ask you to confirm the BIOS upgrade by pressing a keyboard key (with you cannot do), I think the upgrade process will start automatically as soon as boot the laptop from the floppy/CD.
November 29th, 2006 at 8:56 am
I have a toshiba tecra a3. It beeps on power up and hangs at bios select screen. I have swapped in a known good keyboard, tried it without keyboard and it does the same. Eventually it will bott to windows. I can use it via remote desktop or simlar but the attached keyboard does not work. I can see no evidence of damage to pcbs after ataking a part. Do you know what bios tests are carried out on A3 with phoenix bios