Boots fine, then beep errors.

[theSPOOLER]

I'm getting beep errors from Windows XP, please note these are not
POST beeps, but rather occur while Windows is "Loading my personal
settings..." I get 1 short low beep and one long high beep via the PC
speaker just after the Windows Start Up sound plays over the main
speakers. So clearly something is wrong with my user account, it
takes ALONG time to load my personal settings. Creating a new user
does not help, and the same problems occur, so the problem must lie
with the "Default User" or "All User" settings. Will a Windows XP
repair fix the "Documents and Settings" files? I haven't tried it,
because there's not wrong per say with my system. And with the
Windows repair touting the fact that the settings remain intact, I
fear it will do nothing but make me spend another half day at
Windowsupdate.com...

 

[The Unknown P]

It depends on your mother board manufacturer and the BIOS
manufacturer. Here is one site with and explanation of the
beeps. http://www.sysopt.com/biosbmc.html
This will give you and idea of what sort of info you have
to get from your system to find out what the error beeps
mean. Aida32 is an excellent free tool that helps with
what your system has and is and will provide links to the
maker of your BIOS and Mother Board. Have fun

 

[Malke]

I'm getting beep errors from Windows XP, please note these are not
POST beeps, but rather occur while Windows is "Loading my personal
settings..." I get 1 short low beep and one long high beep via the PC
speaker just after the Windows Start Up sound plays over the main
speakers. So clearly something is wrong with my user account, it
takes ALONG time to load my personal settings. Creating a new user
does not help, and the same problems occur, so the problem must lie
with the "Default User" or "All User" settings. Will a Windows XP
repair fix the "Documents and Settings" files? I haven't tried it,
because there's not wrong per say with my system. And with the
Windows repair touting the fact that the settings remain intact, I
fear it will do nothing but make me spend another half day at
Windowsupdate.com...

My guess is that these are indeed motherboard beeps and that something
is going wrong when a piece of hardware is accessed in regular mode. My
guess would be that there is a problem with your video card, but there
really is no way for me to know from a Usenet posting. You should strip
the machine down to it's simplest hardware configuration - motherboard,
RAM, video card, hard drive (no cd-XXX drives, printers, other
peripherals, etc.) and test. Add pci cards in one at a time until
something fails. Try a different video card, that sort of thing. If
hardware troubleshooting isn't your thing, take the machine to a good
local computer repair shop (not a Best Buy or CompUSA store).

Malke