According to a manual on the Packard Bell Pentium computers, three beeps is
the code for a memory failure in the first 64 kb of memory. Hope this
helps. this manual is for a Pentium with a Phoenix bios. Hope this helps.
Mary Wolden
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From: David A. Abbe <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Tuesday, November 10, 1998 9:55 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Old Packard Bell Beep Codes
>Hi all,
>
>I have a Packard Bell Legend 68CD with the 512R motherboard in it.
>It started ok a couple of times yesterday but then would not reboot. Now
>I can't get it to boot no matter what I try. I checked the power supply
>and looked for loose chips, or anything but all appears fine. I have
>checked the hard drive, ram, floppy drive, cd rom, keyboard, and mouse in
>another system and all check out fine. At the moment, I am trying to
>start up with only keyboard, floppy, and ram installed but each time I
>get three tones without video or anything. The tones each last for about
>2 seconds Low....High....Low.... then dead. I believe it to have
>Phoenix bios, it's not documented well. I pulled the motherboard out and
>visually inspected it as best as I can. Heck, I dunno, what do I try
>next?? Oh, it has a Pentium 60MHz processor, eight meg, built in ram, or
>is it 4 forgot at the moment. It does not attempt to boot, stops right
>off the bat with the tones, though the hard drive will spin up. And it
>isn't overclocked or anything. Any ideas??
>Thanks millions,
>David A. Abbe
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