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.
November 27th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
Mo,
Also, try this. Unplug the keyboard from the motherboard and start the laptop with an external USB keyboard. If the problem with the letter “n” still exists even with internal keyboard removed, you might have a problem with the keyboard controller on the motherboard.
@Carbon,
I believe Toshiba doesn’t use master/slave jumpers on hard drives.
Make sure the hard drive is properly connected to the motherboard, there could be some kind of connection issue between HDD and mobo.
November 27th, 2007 at 11:59 am
sry for triple post but @mo is you primary hdd partitioned
November 27th, 2007 at 11:56 am
also this error is caused by having 2 IDE devices (DVD-R and HDD) both set to Master on the same IDE cable/connector soo cheack your master/slave pins
November 27th, 2007 at 11:54 am
try and change BIOS to hard drive as first boot device and duster your keyboard out and tell me if that helps
November 26th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
Hello everyone,
I have recently disassembled my Toshiba Satellite pro a120 dual core. I made sure ALL component were installed correctly, I always double check things! But now, for some reason, I get this irritating message at boot up with BEEBS, where it says “PXE-E61 Media Test Failure” amongst other things. I then reopened everything, and put everything back again, the problem seems to go away at first, and then comes back, this time when everything starts up; the letter “n” is continually and automatically is entered on any searches I click on. What can be the problem, it comes and goes (at the moment as I type this message it isn’t there) but I fear that when I shut down my system, I will have to face this problem again.
Any suggestions….
Thank you ever so much.
Mo.
November 6th, 2007 at 12:26 am
last time i removed my HP desktop system Cover. at time of booting beep sound with warning last time system cover is opened
October 5th, 2007 at 9:28 am
I have a HP pavilion ze 4900 laptop. when you turn it on it has a continous beeping sound. if you hold down the function button the beeping stops. I installed a new hard drive in it and put in the recover cd but it does the same thing. Now when i turn it on it still beeps but goes to a blank black screen with a flashing _ at the top left corner. any suggestions
September 25th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
I have a Acer Aspire 9500. I have had it for about a year. A few weeks ago I went to turn it on and then screen will not come up but I can hear the fan boot up and it let out one long beep that doesnt not stop. The only way to get it to stop is to hold down the power botton and turn it off. I have the extended warrenty but was wondering if there was something I could do to fix it myself. What could be wrong and what could I do it fix it? Any suggestions.
September 25th, 2007 at 5:51 am
I ordered a new keyboard from Dell, downloaded the manual from Laptop Freak and felt sooo smart when I changed the keyboard out all by myself…….and it fixed my problem. Thanks!!
September 19th, 2007 at 8:17 pm
Some manufacturers provide laptop disassembly instructions on their website. Other manufacturers keep it secret. Here are service manuals and disassembly instructions for some known brands, hopefully you find instructions for your laptop in there.
September 19th, 2007 at 7:50 am
I have the keyboard problem with the beeping. Does anyone know where I can find instructions to get into the computer and unhook the keyboard in order to troubleshoot. Also, where would you suggest finding tools for this. I cannot find a screwdriver small enough, and I have discovered I actually have a screw missing. Where can I find screws this small? Thanks
September 16th, 2007 at 7:45 am
hi LAptop freak
i have a toshiba satellite 1955-S807
suddenly when i tried to power up i get 2 beeps and blank screen
i can hear the fan , but i guess i cant hear any sound from the hdd
i tried replacing the hdd nothing happened
when i dismantled the 2 memory modules i get another beep , so i guess it is not a ram issue
do u think it is time to change the system board, plz help me
September 10th, 2007 at 11:55 pm
I have a Dell Laptop. It had been working fine for last few years. Couple of days back,while I was working on net some erratic things seemed to be happening, and I had to shut it down. Now it is not starting at all. What happens is like this.
When I put it on, couple of beeps are heard and a message appears on the screen which reads that windows had not shut down properly and gives options to start the system in different modes viz Normal, Safe etc. Here itself it hangs. I am not able to select any option. If I press any key only a beep is heard and nothing else happens. Even pressing F2 for setup is not working.Can you help please.
September 5th, 2007 at 10:50 am
I have a Sony Vaio VGN-FJ3S. Recently the sound on the laptop has been really bad weather it be itunes, media player, DVDs or websites it sounds like it keeps getting stuck and slows down all the time. Help me lap top freak your my only hope.
July 23rd, 2007 at 4:36 am
I have a Acer Aspire 5002 WLMi laptop that sudenly stopped working. Harddrive and RAM are ok because I checked it with a simiar Acer. I want to change the CMOS battery but I am not able to get at it because after removing almost all the screws I am not able to move the case. Search for free online downloadable service manual proved futile. Can somebody please help?
Thank you
July 12th, 2007 at 10:00 pm
Hey Jess,
You are not alone. My Dell Latitude C840 does exactly the same. A beeping sound comes from the laptop hard drive area without any reason, mostly when the laptop is not used. I’m pretty sure my harddrive disk is OK because I tested it just recently.
I just didn’t have time to figure out what is going on because I don’t really care about this laptop. At first I was thinking it happens because I’m using a wrong AC adapter (I was using a 75 Watt adapter instead of 90 Watt adapter). Just recently I got a new 90 Watt adapter but the problem didn’t go away.
I’m not sure why it happens. At the next step I’ll check what version of BIOS is installed and will upgrade it if needed.
July 10th, 2007 at 11:27 pm
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.
^^ my laptop does exsactly the same as this, randomly, my laptop is a Dell Inspiron 1300
its really getting annoying. anyone help??
July 8th, 2007 at 10:28 am
My Latitude CP turns on fine, the three lights come on and the num, scroll, and caps lock come on momentarily but beeps twice after 15 seconds, there was never any image, We reseated SIMM chip because we didn’t know what side it should go on, A or B, we rebooted it and still nothi’n. Any Help?
June 9th, 2007 at 12:16 am
Hi Everyone,
I have Acer 5002 AMD CPU. It starts, and you can see the screen for just 2 seconds, then goes to black screen. After that, the power button also don’t work.
I try restarting and holding the pause button, it shows the screen for as long as the pause button is pressed, right after, you press any key, it goes Black Screen. External monitor used and after 3 seconds, external monitor shows no signal.
Fan runs and cpu seems like working, but I can’t even go to BIOS. try changing the memory moduals as well. Nothing work. No beeps.
Can it be a bad motherboard or bad CPU? CPU is AMD ML-34, I know, how to open laptop, so any feedback will be helpful.
Please Help……………..
Thanx
March 5th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
Nik,
There is no simple solution. In cases like this (when I’m not sure what’s going on) I usually start taking the laptop apart piece by piece trying to find a faulty part. I test the laptop after each removed part. I start from easy parts like battery, DVD drive, hard drive, wireless card, and then go inside until I get a barebone system (motherboard, CPU and memory).
If you still experience the same problem even after the laptop is completely disassembled, probably it’s a motherboard related issue. Sorry, as I said there is no simple solution.
March 3rd, 2007 at 2:06 am
hi laptop freak,
Pls help me recognise the problem.when i switch on my laptop it beeps continously(one continous going beep).I had tried new RAM but no solution. I have tried using an old battery too as new battery does not seem to charge(as blinkihn display light stops after sometime).What else caould i do and how can i check mother board. My laptop is a intel centrino with Intel 855 chipset, DDR333RAM
February 28th, 2007 at 8:10 pm
Dave Cantin,
Test both memory modules in each slot: RAM1-Slot1, RAM1-Slot2, RAM2-Slot1 and RAM2-Slot2, four combinations total. Maybe you have a faulty memory slot on the motherboard? In this case the laptop should start with both memory modules in the one slot and fail with both memory modules in another slot.
February 28th, 2007 at 11:10 am
I have an hp pavilion dv5217cl. It was working fine and I turned it on after using it earlier in the day and the screen was totally blank and I heard 4 beeps, I checked the memory in the laptop and I have 1gig when I take a 512 stick out it stops beeping but still doesn’t turn on. Totally confused. When you look up the 4 beep code it says system timer which could be caused by a bad motherboard
February 22nd, 2007 at 4:58 pm
Hi Laptop Freak
I haven’t tried flashing the BIOS. As I recall their support tech said I had the latest version — but it’s definitely worth a try. I will attempt it and let you know if beeping continues.
Dan – not that I’m happy you’re having this problem as well but at least I don’t feel like I’m in a twilight zone anymore
February 21st, 2007 at 8:18 am
Laptop Freak,
Help us, please!
February 21st, 2007 at 8:15 am
Dan, Eric, Kai,
It seems like we all have the same problem and no answer yet. I’ll dedicate time this weekend and post what I find on Monday. Meanwhile I do want to comment that in my case I put 512mb of ram extra in my machine. I formatted my hard drive and loaded Windows Pro SP2. I have already uploaded the newest drivers and Bios update from Acer’s site. The beeping continues. I have become accustomed to it. But when I’m in a meeting my bosses rolling eyes tell me “You need to get that thing fixed”.
February 20th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
Dan, Dani,
have you tried re-flashing or upgrading the BIOS?
February 20th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
Jaimie,
I think it might be a bad keyboard, probably one button has a shorted contacts even though it’s not pressed down. The laptop “thinks” the button is pressed and makes a beep. I would try disconnecting the keyboard from the motherboard and test the laptop with an external keyboard. If it works, try replacing the laptop keyboard.
There is a possibility that you have a problem with the keyboard controller on the motherboard. In this case you’ll have to replace the motherboard.
It’s really hard to troubleshoot these kind of problems without a known good keyboard. Without a test keyboard you have to guess.
February 20th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
Mario,
I’m getting the same thing with one of my customer’s laptop. It will beep every now and then, but nothing happens, no problems or anything, just one annoying little beep. I still have yet to figure this one out. It’s on an Acer Aspire 5040.
February 19th, 2007 at 12:16 am
Hi, When my Acer Travelmate 4400 is charging the battery and the system is in use, it beeps twice and the screen blinks twice in time with the beeps. This only happens sometimes, and the beeps don’t seem to be in any regular pattern. Beeps also will occur during reboot. Have tried a new battery but it’s still happening. The power jack isn’t loose. Thanks for any help – Acer has no idea what’s wrong.