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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