At 11:52 PM 1/13/01 -0500, you wrote:

>The symptoms are as follows:
>If the system has been off for a few hours it will likely boot and within 2
>minutes of being on the screen will simply freeze and the keyboard will not
>respond. The only way to shut it off is w/power switch. An immediate reboot
>will result in a blacked out monitor, with no POSTING info on screen, or any
>video BIOS. After a few seconds like this, a pulsing siren sound comes from
>the system speaker.


Hi Jay...

Please describe, in detail, the pulsing sound you hear. Are they "beeps" or
"siren"?? Any order to them?  By your description, it sounds like an
overheating problem, until you get to the "pulsing siren" sound you hear.
Bad memory or video will result in certain series of "beeps". But there is
a siren sound that will let lose on some boards for other reasons. Does
your motherboard manual describe such a sound?

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