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Re: My slow eMachines computer...

By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (0)
Fri, 06 Aug 21 9:05 PM | 23 view(s)
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Re: “1 Long Beep + 3 Short Beeps”The computer may just be a lemon. (eMachines. Who'd have guessed that they'd make a lemon?)

I tried the computer with just one of the 4 gig cards. The BIOS beeped. Then I tried it with just the other card and the other memory slot. It beeped. Then I tried it with the original 3 gigs of memory and both slots. It still beeped.

I wish I could remember when the beeping began but I don't. This may have been occurring all along.

I'll put the 8 gigs back in and see how the computer behaves. Maybe it won't have any problems; who knows? But with the knowledge that it is PROBABLY prone to memory errors, I'll only use the computer as a secondary machine. I'm not going to put something that matters (a key database, software I'm writing or important documents) on it and risk a loss of data.




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Re: My slow eMachines computer...
By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE
Fri, 06 Aug 21 8:10 PM 		Msg. 21453 of 60008

micro:

Re: “Upon booting, the computer is throwing errors - one beep followed by three more in quick succession.”It's an American Megatrends BIOS. I looked up the beep codes and one long followed by three short means MEMORY ERROR:

1 Long Beep + 3 Short Beeps

If you hear one long beep followed by three short ones, this is due to a failure above the 64 KB mark in the computer's system memory.

There's little practicality in this test versus some of the earlier tests because the solution is the same—replace the RAM.
It is continuing to occur now that I've pulled the wireless network card back out. I don't know why I didn't notice the memory error earlier.

I'll try using ONE of the memory cards instead of both and see if I can pin it down to one card or the other. If I can't, I may have to return both cards and use the old 3GB memory.

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