From: Dr Sebby (drsebby@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Sep 13 2003 - 20:28:58 MDT
....ok, i opened up my computer after having chatted with the people that
sold it to me...they suggested that the three beeps sounded like a vid. card
problem....but i cant be sure. so far i have pulled out the vid card...put
it back in, unplugged it etc....i still seem to get the three beeps on
startup. so i must ask, without actually replacing something, how do i
test for confirmation of error? i pulled the supposed vid card evil-doer,
and i still get the error beeps. any ideas what it might be instead?
DrSebby.
"Courage...and shuffle the cards".
----Original Message Follows----
From: "Kalkor" <kalkor@kalkor.com>
Reply-To: virus@lucifer.com
To: <virus@lucifer.com>
Subject: RE: virus: how many e-mails has the Sobig.F. worm released?
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 22:30:23 -0700
[Sebby]
...wouldnt i at least see the blue screen of death if one of these
situations were the case? example; i turn the monitor on after the
computer...it goes 'green light' and then after a few seconds (presumably
waiting for some sort of output or signal from mr. computer) it just
switches over to the "orange light of waiting" for evermore. it really
seems as if nothing is coming out of the computer whatsoever. i put a
bootable cd in and still nothing. also, there isnt even a boot-up "BEEP"
that the machine makes...no sounds whatsoever...from the speakers or from
the internal computer tower speaker(the one that makes the beeps). i've
tried looking for a suicide note in and around the printer, but still
nothing. this is looking bad. real bad. =( a despondant sebby awaits
your reply.
[Kalkor]
No beeps? No BIOS. Sorry. You're gonna have to start swapping out components
I'm afraid, unless you can at least get the monitor to come out of rest and
display the initial BIOS self-test bits...
[Sebby2]
...yeah thats what im sort of figuring. but what do you suppose it
means...the fact that i saw that initial setup screen with the weird serial
number-like thing at the bottom.... and then i restart the computer and
NOTHING! at least i had a screen there until i restarted. i wish i had hit
delete and entered the bios to poke around.
[Kalkor2]
BSOD is part of Windoze... you hadn't even gotten there yet, so I would not
expect the BSOD.
As you say, it seemed the computer was frozen at the BIOS screen... you
probably wouldn't have even been able to get into BIOS setup, as the
computer didn't seem to want to get past the "counting its marbles" phase,
pre-OS load.
Sounds like the BIOS had a hickup and stopped right at that point, never to
be able to reach that point again. I'd start with some removal of, say,
video card, and boot, see if you get the beeps (motherboard error codes). If
not, try removing all IDE devices, and do the same thing (boot, listen for
beep codes). If nothing, I'd guess you're SOL on the mobo. Wish I had a
different answer for you. If anyone else has troubleshooting steps to
suggest, speak up!
Kalkor
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