I get a long alarm sound with a short stop and it doesnt stop the power light is stuck on orange it is an hp pavillion 753n base processor and speed is P4 2.53 GHz/533 and its got a 80 gb hard drive and i figure thats all i know about it the specs are on http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocument? cc=us&docname=bph07768&lc=en please help you can email me at sewaslyz@yahoo.com uh thanx oh yeah my model number is P9852A thanx

Oh yeah and please be kinda simple with the explanation i havent foolde with the insides of computers since dos and win 3.0 i know what the ram is and where and what it looks like but im still kinda lately dumber about that stuff

Did this just happen? Was everything ok before? New hardware/ software? Been moving the computer?

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The Award BIOS is brief in descripton:

The following are Award BIOS Beep Codes that can occur. However because of the wide variety of different computer manufacturers with this BIOS the beep codes may vary.

1 long, 2 short Indicates a video error has occurred and the BIOS cannot initialize the video screen to display any additional information

Any other beep(s) RAM problem.

1. Try re-seating the Video Card

if that doesn't work:

2. Try re-seating the RAM.

if that doesn't work:

3. Try re-seating the Processor.