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Mark Tretter <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 7 Oct 2005 19:31:04 -0500
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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
> [log in to unmask]
>
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