Constant Beeping.

[Dan (Still going in circles)]

I have an EMachine 500a.
As I am booting and after boot-up, about every 2 minutes maybe a
little less, the machine beeps twice and the screen refreshes. Also,
when I click on a Icon it will do the same thing.
Anyone have any ideas? I am afraid it maybe a virus and am in the
process of trying to eliminate this possiblity.
Any thoughts woudl be helpful.


Dan (Still going in circles)

[Joseph Conway [MSFT]]

Depends Dan, sometimes the OEMs will have a beep code sequence to let you
know that there is an issue with the hardware. Usually these beep codes
are only seen on machines that do not boot though.

What kind of video card is in the machine? Have you scanned the machine
for viruses? Did anything happen recently (new software/hardware install,
updates, etc) that precluded this happening?

Joseph W. Conway, MCSE
Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server Group

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