Mother board beep codes compaq presario 1235 notebook

[Zenassem]

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]

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

[This message has been edited by bistro (edited 10-16-2001).]

[Zenassem]

No the montor doesn't come on.


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~Zen

[bistro]

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]

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

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~Zen

[bistro]

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]

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]

Can you boot into safe mode?

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Michael

[Zenassem]

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


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~Zen

[MichaelH]

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]

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]

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



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Michael

[Zenassem]

Thanks MichaelH.

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

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~Zen

[MichaelH]

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

[Opovet]

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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REAL FRIENDS do not ask friends to fix a Packard Bell or an old Comcraps!!

[This message has been edited by Opovet (edited 10-16-2001).]