Mother board beep codes compaq presario 1235 notebook - Virtual Dr Forums-Computer Tech Support

Zenassem · #1 October 16th, 2001, 12:48 PM

Can someone direct me to a site where I van look up mother board beep codes for a Compaq Presario 1235 Notebook?

And/or does any one know what this beep sequence is for the above mentioned system:

1 beep followed by 3 short beeps.

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~Zen

**bistro** · #2 October 16th, 2001, 12:52 PM

Probably a video problem. Card/onboard chip may be out of kilter. Does the monitor come on?

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Zenassem · #3 October 16th, 2001, 12:53 PM

No the montor doesn't come on.

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~Zen

**bistro** · #4 October 16th, 2001, 12:55 PM

Vid beep code then. Have you installed anything recently. Try to recall what app/activity was going on just before this or the last shutdown. Were you rebooting?

Zenassem · #5 October 16th, 2001, 12:57 PM

Yes I was rebooting. I was in the process of Installing DNS/DHCP manager for novell 5.1.

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~Zen

**bistro** · #6 October 16th, 2001, 01:06 PM

That really should not have screwed with your video, but hey, we're talking Windows here...(it's also possible you may have just knocked something loose in there, but doesn't sound likely either--unless you used a baseball bat to reboot it with). I'm going to do some checking around on this one. May take a few. Meanwhile, hang in there.

Zenassem · #7 October 16th, 2001, 01:13 PM

Thanks bistro.

I do remember the vidoe going berzerk befor i had to hard power down. on reboot i got the beeps. I have never worked on a laptop before so i don't know what the vid car/chip looks like or it's location in a laptop.

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~Zen

MichaelH · #8 October 16th, 2001, 01:19 PM

Can you boot into safe mode?

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Michael

Zenassem · #9 October 16th, 2001, 01:20 PM

I can't see anything because the display is remains black.

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~Zen

MichaelH · #10 October 16th, 2001, 01:23 PM

1 long, 3 short Conventional/extended memory
for AMI BIOS if that is what you have

very possible that it's the video also
You loaded the Novell 5.1 but what were the sys requirements.

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Michael

Zenassem · #11 October 16th, 2001, 01:26 PM

Should i try pulling out one of my 32mb of ram.

I wasn't loading novell 5.1. Just a dns/dhcp client that is used to configure the dhcp server on a novell 5.1 server.

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~Zen

MichaelH · #12 October 16th, 2001, 01:36 PM

not yet.
Do you see anything when the system is booting?
even a flash on the screen

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Michael

Zenassem · #13 October 16th, 2001, 01:37 PM

Thanks MichaelH.

No not a thing on the screen. No flicker or flash.

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~Zen

MichaelH · #14 October 16th, 2001, 01:43 PM

I'm at a loss, the symptoms say its the video.
But, at the time of the DNS/DHCP loading?
too coincedental..

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Michael

#15 October 16th, 2001, 02:08 PM

Suggest you try an external monitor to see if it is the video or the LCD. will look for the beep codes also.
edit: http://www.compaq.com/support/techpu.../8361.htmldit:
if that does not work try :www3.compaq.com/support/

Opovet

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