Ray,

First of all, we need to know what BIOS you have.  Different
vendors/manufacturers use different codes.

Second.  You didn't say WHY you had to replace your old monitor.... maybe
the monitor was fine and the problem is inside the PC.  Especially since
you said that using the new monitor causes a different problem.  What
happens if you put the old monitor back in the system?  Do you still get
the beeps?  You may just have a bad video card or some other problem.

Lastly,  for many BIOS, the first long beep is just an announcement that
there is a problem.  The number of beeps following the long beep are the
code for the type of problem.
In general, three beeps is a RAM problem in the first 64K of memory. But
since we don't know the maker of your BIOS, we can't say for sure.

Jim Meagher
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Duncan <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, March 08, 1999 7:24 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Computer Problem --- 4 beeps during power-on.


>Dear friends,
>
>My computer is giving me the "4 beep salute" lately.
>
>First of all, the system details:
>
>Pentium 133 Mhz, 64 MByte EDO RAM, Graphics: S3-Virge w/ 4MByte of
memory,
>running Win95, graphic settings: Optimal.
>
>My old monitor dies a short while ago, so I bought an "intelligent" P-n-P
>super-VGA monitor. The monitor has only few buttons in front, and a LCD
>indicator in front.
>
>When I was using my old monitor, my computer never gave me any trouble.
It's
>when I hook the new "intelligent" monitor that my computer started giving
me the
>"4 beep salute".
>
>The "4 beep salute" is one long-beep follows by 3 short-beeps. It happens
>occassionally, and when that happened, there is nothing on the screen
(dark) and
>the LCD indicator of the monitor gave a orange color or pale-green color
(it
>shows bright green when everything is okay.)
>
>When the "4-beep salute" happened, I usually power-down the computer, and
wait a
>while before powering up again. Sometimes when I do the power-off,
power-on, the
>problem goes away, but sometimes the "4-beep salute" got very
persistent --- my
>computer just go on giving me "beeeep, beep-beep-beep" no matter how many
times
>I power-down and then power-up.
>
>I've tried to jiggle the monitor cord, and sometimes that work. Sometimes
when
>everything failed, I power-down the monitor and then turn it back on.
>
>Strange thing is, if I turn off the monitor and then back on again, my
keyboard
>stops working. And when I hit the reset button of my computer to reboot,
my
>computer will tell me that there is no keyboard or keyboard is not
functioning
>properly.
>
>Well... keyboard is fine, I've checked the keyboard on other computer.
>
>Point is, I do not know what is happening to my computer.
>
>Is it my monitor or is there some other things that are going haywired?
>
>Any advice that you can give me will be tremendously appreciated.
>
>Many thanks in advance.
>
>Yours truly,
>Ray
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