According to my book, which is 3 years old, errors are listed exactly as follows:

One single beep followed by three, four, or five beeps:

- System-board problems, possibly with DMA, CMOS setup chip, timer, or system bus.

Exactly how this can help you I don't know, but hth

Al Thompson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lynn Tracy"
Subject: [PCBUILD] Unknown P.O.S.T. beep code???


> Hi all,
>
> Hope someone here knows what this is....
>
> I've been scouring the 'net but come up empty-handed.
>
> It's:
>
> 1 - long, followed by 3 short, beeps. I still get the regular, single POST beep just before my
splash screen starts.
>
> I even listened over & over to be sure it wasn't 1-2-1..... it's definitely 1 long, 3 short.
>
> It's the Dell Dim. XPS-T 450. I now have a Powerleap Celeron 1.3Ghz in it as well as a Promise
controller for my 100GB HD. Have a DVD & CD-burner, too. Original Voodoo3 (I have a Geforce 3 to go
in but don't want to add to the stew).  Board is Intel (440BX), BIOS is Phoenix 4.0-6.  I'm flashed
to the last BIOS available from Dell, A11.
>
> I've reseated the memory & video card. Tried it with Sandra, Hot CPU Test Lite (6 hour
test/burn-in/"defect-detect"), PCPitstop-- all say there's nothing wrong. What is going on here?
It's disturbing because I can't find this code & worry about my data either being corrupted at some
point or the whole deal possibly going down- what is this code???
>
> Hope someone here from PCBuilders can help- or another person who's been through this?
>
> Thank you for your time & interest,
>
> Lynn Tracy

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