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How To Turn Off The Annoying Windows XP System beeping of BIOS – Its Very Annoying
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kay Brenner
Kay Brenner is a PC Doctor and has been involved with designing and building computer systems for all shapes and sizes for some of America’s largest corporations for over twenty-three years. To learn about how to optimize your slow computer and download a free Health Check, and reclaim the dream machine your first bought, saving you time & money wrestling with a sick computer, go to: http://www.pcdocpro.com  
By kay Brenner
Published on 03/11/2010
 
Isn't it very annoying? You have switched on your computer and then nothing happens except a few beeps from the PC speaker. As you get frustrated and you try to figure out what is wrong with it. If you didn't already know the computer has already told you the problem. It can't speak of course but it can direct you to the problem. Its all in the beeps. The BIOS can recognize when the problem occurs and sends a signal out to send a certain amount of beeps through the speaker. These beeps then tell you the location of the problem.
Bios Beeping Problems

When you are for a long time in front of your computer, the annoying beeps starts to make you mad after sometime. And I am very sure at those times that I have not pressed a wrong key, so I’ve listed a few things about how to turn off all the system beeps in Windows XP. One of the most irritating beeps happens when you are using the Volume control… but there are other beeps, such as on error dialogs or when you hit the wrong key.

 Don’t get annoyed if you hear BIOS of your system beeping back at you. It is a signal that your system is in trouble and is asking for your help to fix one of the PC errors.  Whenever there is any trouble or your system is finding it difficult to boot up the BIOS starts beeping. The problem could be anywhere in the BIOS or in one of the hardware components installed in your PC.

Many PC manufacturing companies or motherboard vendors use BIOS codes made by American Megatrends (AMI), Award or Phoenix. But some manufacturers write their own BIOS.  To understand the meaning of PC codes you need to consult the owner’s manual.  You also need to know the type and version of your BIOS to know the exact meaning of the code.

Also these codes can display several patterns. Sometimes they will not even match the description provided in the owner’s manual. The code generally uses simple short beeps in varying numbers to indicate one of the PC errors.  But different manufacturers may use different pattern and sometimes you will find code with mixed pattern consisting of short and long beeps mixed together.

There are as many patterns of beep codes as there are number of brands. So here we have just tried t include the general idea about how these beep codes help for troubleshooting and you can refer your manufacturer’s manual or website to get the correct beep code to identify the PC errors accurately for fixing your system.

Single Beep- indicates RAM failure or problem in motherboard.

Two Beeps- points towards the possibility of having problem in parity circuit

Three Beeps- indicates failure in the first 64K RAM

Four Beeps- failure in system’s timer

Five Beeps- processor failure

Six Beeps- error related to keyboard or keyboard controller

Seven Beeps- indicates virtual mode exception error

Eight Beeps- inability of BIOS to read/write from the display card memory

Nine Beeps- Motherboard problem or defective BIOS CMOS chip

Ten Bees- indicates one of the motherboard component is having problem to interact with the CMOS

Eleven Beeps- Points to problem in cache module

Continuous Beeping- indicates problem with display card, RAM or motherboard

If you are not able to figure out what the beep codes are indicating even after referring to your motherboard manufacturer’s guide then you can look out for one of the online community of computer support.  It is one of the very effective ways for getting help or advice related to any of your PC errors.