A series of 4 to 10 beeps is occurring about 5 minutes apart in my computer box. Ran a diagnostic and according to the results everything checks fine. Any idea what's causing this? TIA
Does your Dell show a prompt on the black screen about booting choices? Usually there will be a memory test, suggest you run it. If not possible use memtest86+, downloadable and run within Windows.
Ran the HP diagnostics and everything passed. What could be doing this? Thanks for your response. Anyone else have any ideas? Also ran a virus scan but nothing found. TIA
Didn't know you have an HP, your My Computer shows a Dell.
My bad. It is Dell 8300 xps. Thanks
Restart computer and press F12, run Diagnostics.
Understanding Beep Codes on a Dell Desktop PC | Dell US
If it tests fine, open case and pinpoint where the sound is coming from. If it is coming from the HDD, it may be failing.
sounds like a video card is faulty..if you get 4 beeps on boot up then it's the video card that is the problem.
You can test your Ram with Windows 10
In RUN (Win Key + R) type mdsched.exe press Enter and you will see >
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Cooling fans are clean but the cpu ribs (right below the fan) had accumulated some lint cause I have ignored it during cleaning. All is good now. Thanks for all of those who responded.
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