So we have this computer where i work. It's fairly old and doesn't have any special features. One of those premade dell ones that is made to simply run Point of Sales software (it's used as a till).
Recently it decided to stop working. So i opened it up and found it was dusty as hell. I took it home and used an air can / vacuum on it and got all the nasty shit out of it (it was basically clogged). I was unable to fix it though.
Basically what happens is, you turn it on and you'll see the boot screen on the monitor, but then it emits several low pitched long beeps (like 1 to 1.5 seconds long) and the monitor goes black. The computer is still on (you can open the CD tray etc) but the monitor doesn't display anything. What could the low pitch beeps mean? I didn't look too closely at it but since this is a very cheap computer i assume it has onboard graphics. Would this mean there's a mobo failure?
can you count how many beeps there are and for how long for example one long beep two short? and give us the exact model of your pc. This way we can look up the beep codes and tell you whats wrong.
Also
Never ever ever vacumn ur pc unless you wanna ESD the hell out of it <3
Of course i didn't touch the vacuum to the mobo, i used canned air to blast the dust off then sucked it up off the bottom.
I'll get the precise beep count and make of the computer tomorrow.
It's a Dell Dimension 5150. When i turn it on there's 3 low pitched beeps that seem to come from the mobo. I looked it up on google and some guy with a slightly different Dell has the same problem, apparently it has to do with the RAM. I'll try resetting them.
Fried motherboard.
Just order a new pre from dell.
You can't really service a problem like this. You'd waste more company time trying to fix this then it would cost them to order a new one.
You could try the following.
Moving the ram to different slots on the mobo, taking one stick out leaving the other in see if you get results.
It seems the low pitched beeps could be a cmos battery issue you could try replacing that.
If not the guy above is right fried mobo.
[QUOTE=Mandalore777;33609947]You could try the following.
Moving the ram to different slots on the mobo, taking one stick out leaving the other in see if you get results.
It seems the low pitched beeps could be a cmos battery issue you could try replacing that.
If not the guy above is right fried mobo.[/QUOTE]
He tried different ram sticks already.
Motherboards will work without the cmos battery just not save settings.
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