So my brother was playing The Witcher just a few moments ago when it suddenly crashed. Now it won't start. Instead, it just shows a black screen and it beeps consistently.
Halp nao?
It's having a stroke.
[QUOTE=Randy;26548211]It's having a stroke.[/QUOTE]
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OP, what are the beeps exactly? Short? Long? Short short? Short long long? What motherboard do you have?
Each board has a morse code-esque error reporting system. If something doesn't work and prevents the PC from booting, the beeps tell you specifically what it is.
Usually when A computer is beeping repeatedly at startup, it's hardware related. I'm sure some viruses can screw shit up so much that it can render a PC a paperweight. If you knew you had a virus, thats probably your problem. System specs would help too!
[QUOTE=MTMod;26553492]
Each board has a morse code-esque error reporting system. If something doesn't work and prevents the PC from booting, the beeps tell you specifically what it is.[/QUOTE]
This. We can't help you until you tell us specifically what the beeps are.
Yep, find out the beeps and compare them to your motherboard manual if you can find it, that will tell you about the issue.
If you can't find the manual, you could check here:
[url]http://www.pchell.com/hardware/beepcodes.shtml[/url]
Repeated beeping is bad ram.
[QUOTE=Mighty Cow;26554236]Usually when A computer is beeping repeatedly at startup, it's hardware related. I'm sure some viruses can screw shit up so much that it can render a PC a paperweight. If you knew you had a virus, thats probably your problem. System specs would help too![/QUOTE]
Viruses can't break hardware....
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;26625050]Repeated beeping is bad ram.[/QUOTE]
different beeps mean different things. 3 short beeps could mean one thing, but 2 short beeps and a long beep can mean something entirely different.
[QUOTE=robmaister12;26626303]different beeps mean different things. 3 short beeps could mean one thing, but 2 short beeps and a long beep can mean something entirely different.[/QUOTE]
By that i mean constant non stop beeping
of the annoying kind
[QUOTE=bootv2;26626430]they can. A virus could flash the bios and set it to abnormally overvoltage some components. thus destroying the hardware.[/QUOTE]
That isn't at all likely for a very large number of reasons.
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;26625050]Repeated beeping is bad ram.[/QUOTE]
I forget whether it was a virus, or just a program error..
I read that a guy had some sort of bad software lock one of his CPUs to 100% work load, which fried it.
[editline]13th December 2010[/editline]
Also OP,
Google the beep codes.
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