Hi

I was wondering if someone may be able to help.

I have an Advent T9106 that has developed a fault on boot up.

When the PC is booted the fan spins up, the drive spins and then I get a beeping noise, the pattern is as follows:

Single long interupted beep - approx 6-7 seconds.
Pause - 4-5 seconds
Single long interupted beep - approx 6-7 seconds.
And so on..........

If you depress the power button on the front this normally turns of the PC, but it now starts the boot process again, the only way to turm the PC off is via the hard switch on the back.

There is no output to the screen at this stage so I am not seeing any startup type error.

This started to happen after the PC locked up and failed to respond to either keyboard or mouse instructions, and I reset the PC via the front switch, the sequence described that occured straight after that.

My worry is the drive has crashed, but not sure why I am not seeing anything on the screen to allow me to enter the BIOS to try to change the boot sequence the the CD incase I need to try using the repair disks (which I dont have :-( )

Before I start to try to rebuild the PC I want to be sure it is a drive issue.

Any help greatly recieved.......

Thanks.

I doubt its the hard drive. If it were you should at least see the POST. Probably one of the RAM sticks. Test the sticks of RAM by trying to boot with just 1 stick in at a time. Also try different slots for the ram.. Could be a bad RAM slot or a bad RAM stick... Post back and let us know what you find....

Hi

Thanks for the reply, when it first happened I tried relocating the memory but did not try what you suggested.

It would seem that DIMM slot 2 is the problem as I am able to get the PC to boot with either of the DIMMS in slot 4 but not in combination with slot2. I can not use slots 1 and 3 as the same occurs.

Now means I have only one usable DIMM giving 256MB, any ideas on the best way to increase this back to 512MB or fix the duff slot? I am assuming I am going to have to get a single 512MB chip, is there any real performance issue with doing that?

But thanks for the fists reply, has got me up and running again

Well there are advantages of running DUAL CHANNEL. You have to have a DUAL Channel capable board and you have to have 2 exact same ram sticks. Do a google search on DUAL CHANNEL or wikipedia and Im sure you will get a good explanation of it. What sort of system do you have. It might be bencificial to upgrade to a newer mother board...