I have an EMachine 500a.
As I am booting and after boot-up, about every 2 minutes maybe a
little less, the machine beeps twice and the screen refreshes. Also,
when I click on a Icon it will do the same thing.
Anyone have any ideas? I am afraid it maybe a virus and am in the
process of trying to eliminate this possiblity.
Any thoughts woudl be helpful.


Dan (Still going in circles)

On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 00:14:58 GMT, Dan (Still going in circles) wrote:

> I have an EMachine 500a.
> As I am booting and after boot-up, about every 2 minutes maybe a
> little less, the machine beeps twice and the screen refreshes. Also,
> when I click on a Icon it will do the same thing.
> Anyone have any ideas? I am afraid it maybe a virus and am in the
> process of trying to eliminate this possiblity.
> Any thoughts woudl be helpful.
>
>
> Dan (Still going in circles)

If the beep is coming from the tower, it is probably the motherboard
beeping an error code. The pattern of the beep determines the meaning of
the error message. Unfortunately these vary from one BIOS to another and
I'm not familiar with the ones that eMachines uses.

Examples of common beep code systems:
http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm

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Sharon F
MS-MVP/ Windows XP - Shell/User

On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 02:10:41 GMT, Dan (Still going in circles) wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 19:58:12 -0500, Sharon F <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 00:14:58 GMT, Dan (Still going in circles) wrote:
>>
>>> I have an EMachine 500a.
>>> As I am booting and after boot-up, about every 2 minutes maybe a
>>> little less, the machine beeps twice and the screen refreshes. Also,
>>> when I click on a Icon it will do the same thing.
>>> Anyone have any ideas? I am afraid it maybe a virus and am in the
>>> process of trying to eliminate this possiblity.
>>> Any thoughts woudl be helpful.
>>>
>>>
>>> Dan (Still going in circles)
>>
>>If the beep is coming from the tower, it is probably the motherboard
>>beeping an error code. The pattern of the beep determines the meaning of
>>the error message. Unfortunately these vary from one BIOS to another and
>>I'm not familiar with the ones that eMachines uses.
>>
>>Examples of common beep code systems:
>>http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm
>
>
> Sharon,
> Thanks for the insight, however, I seemed to have not stated that when
> I called EMachine for assistance, I went through the loopes and over
> the barrels and received no help.
> I realize that the beeps come from the MB and the bios is the one that
> starts the beeps, however, this is a modified AMI bios and there seems
> to be no assistance to troubleshooting.
> I really do appreciate the response.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> Dan (Still going in circles)

You're welcome Dan and yep, it usually helps to share those extra details.
No problem though as I know how easy it can be to forget doing that when
working intently on a problem. The page I referenced shows 2 beeps on
regular AMI board to be a memory parity error. Perhaps a stick of RAM is
not inserted all of the way? If you performed a recent hardware upgrade in
the case or moved the case, one may have knocked loose.

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Sharon F
MS-MVP/ Windows XP - Shell/User