beep errors

[lorne]

Hi all,
I hope someone will be able to help me out here....
I had a bad hard drive and for some unknown reason, i wanted to make sure it
was bad so i installed it in my computer. i was right, the hard drive was
bad. All of a sudden i was hearing a solid continuous beep... turned off
computer and replaced the power supply. Started the computer and got one
long and three short beeps. Video card i thought. Pulled out my vodoo 3
card and replaced it with an ati card. Restarted and got the same beep
pattern.
what could this be? is the agp slot burnt out?
thanks to all

 

[NobodyMan]

Hi all,
I hope someone will be able to help me out here....
I had a bad hard drive and for some unknown reason, i wanted to make sure it
was bad so i installed it in my computer. i was right, the hard drive was
bad. All of a sudden i was hearing a solid continuous beep... turned off
computer and replaced the power supply. Started the computer and got one
long and three short beeps. Video card i thought. Pulled out my vodoo 3
card and replaced it with an ati card. Restarted and got the same beep
pattern.
what could this be? is the agp slot burnt out?
thanks to all

You indicated it's old and you've lost the manual - so now your
choices are real limited. You could pack up the box and head over to
your local computer store. They'll put it on the bench and quickly
diagnose the problem - for a fee.

You could also just break down and either buy a new system, or upgrade
your old one.