All fans are working....for the first two to three seconds and then it shuts
down.  Could be vid, but, that should make the whole computer shut
down....should it?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Tretter" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 7:31 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Dead PC - English siren


> Possibly Vid card or Ram?  Fan working on CPU?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul E. Mason" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 5:00 PM
> Subject: [PCBUILD] Dead PC - English siren
>
>
>> My wife's PC died last night.  It went dead and emitted an "english
>> siren"
>> type of warning and continued until the power button was pressed for a
>> few
>> seconds (the hard 'off' command).
>>
>> I looked at it today.  Replaced the CPU, no change.  Replaced the MB, no
>> change.  (both were PROBABLY good).
>>
>> Final symptoms on power-up were: Fans on, two to three second warmup,
>> then
>> fans off and siren.
>>
>> Accepting any and all imput.
>>
>> Thanks in Advance,
>>
>> Paul E. Mason
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