PC beeps: the significance of the error messages when booting

If the PC is booting beeps, each error message is a meaning of its own. We will show you how to interpret the signals.

If the Computer beeps ...
...and not properly boots up, you can use the sounds to find where the Defect is found. When you Start checking the Bios (Basic Input / Output System), all built-in Hardware. The error messages are not uniform, each Bios has its own error Code. Therefore, we declare to you in this Tip, how to get the most Beep-beeps decrypt and what they mean. What Bios you have, you will see at the Start shortly displayed in the top left.

AMI-BIOS - acoustic error Codes
A long beep at startup, this means that at AMI BIOS that everything is in order and now the operating system can be started. A Dauerpiepen at the Start indicates an error on the power supply. However, before you buy a new one, turn off the Computer and try another Start.

• 1 x short: your Computer Beeps at boot with an AMI BIOS once, sits a RAM either not right in his Bank, modules in pairs do not match, or a RAM is defective. As a first step, you should verify that the RAM firmly into the Slot is locked so is seated properly.
• 2 x short or 3 x just means a Parity Error in the first 64kB of memory, i.e. one of the Hardwaretestroutinen is flawed. Check the RAM.
• 4 x brief likewise points to a failure in the first 64 kB of memory. Either the battery is defective or you need a new Mainboard. Check in but also the RAM settings.
• 5 x brief: this is a Defect with the processor. This can be insufficient cooling, or the processor is to be highly synchronised.
• 6 x brief: This Sequence is referred to a Gate A2O error. Usually this is a broken keyboard is the cause for the error message. < Try a different keyboard to the Computer.
• 7 x brief: The message tells you that the processor is a Ausnahmeinterrupt produced. Either is a Kontaktproblem with the Socket or the processor is overclocked.
• 8 x brief: This error Code indicates that the Bios of the video card not found. Either she will not sit properly in the Slot, or it is defective. This error message is the same procedure as the RAM: Check the proper seat of the video card, and if they are fixed in the Slot is fully engaged.
• 9 x briefly points to a ROM Bios checksum-error. The BIOS can be corrupted or not properly updated.
• 10 x short: CMOS can not be read. The motherboard is defective, it remains only to the exchange.
• 11 x brief: the Computer at startup, as many notes in a row, he wants you to say that a checksum Error has occurred. That sounds worse than it is. It means that the CMOS battery is empty. In the CMOS memory are all customized settings to Start stored. The battery is empty, you must either awkward at every Start of the settings in the Bios, by Hand, make selections, or simply the CMOS battery switch.
• 3 x short, 3 x long, 3 x briefly: It is only the exchange of memory - it is defective.
• 1 x long, 1 short: This error message indicates a serious error on the server Board. This can, for example, an incorrect clock speed of the CPU.
• 1 x long, 2 short: The PC will find the graphics card is not.

Phoenix BIOS and its Beep-beeps
The Phoenix Bios brings his messages, not as a combination of short and long tones, but only as a brief, broken intervals. 1-1-3: means a CMOS read/Write errors. To fix, you should use the BIOS Setup to run.

• 1-1-4: a BIOS checksum-error, you can select the BIOS replacing or updating.
• 1-2-1, 1-2-2, 1-2-3: If one of these strings, the DMA controller or the Systemtimer defective. You need a new Board.
• 1-3-3, 1-3-4, 1-4-1, 1-4-2: Check to see if the RAM is correctly seated and Slot are engaged.
• 3-1-1, 3-1-2, 3-1-3, 3-1-4: These beeps have you all as Defects in different registers interpret. All you have only a new Motherboard installed.
• 3-2-4: the keyboard controller registers a Defect. Here, too, you may need the Board to replace.
• 3-3-4, 3-4-1, 3-4-2: These sequences have with the video card to do. Either there is a damage to the card or on the memory before or you have the cable is not connected properly.
• 4-2-1, 4-2-2, 4-2-3, 4-2-4: There are problems with the Timer Interrupt, the Shutdown function, an error Gate A20 or an unexpected Interrupt in Protected Mode. Also here is the exchange of the Board as a solution of the problem.
• 4-3-1: The PC reports DRAM error. Check the proper seat of the DRAM.
• 4-3-2, 4-3-4: Now it's either the Timer is defective, or there is a Problem when Testing the real-time clock. Definitely would like them to the PC in order to say that a new Board need.
• 4-4-1: A serial interface has failed the Test. You can use in the BIOS, turn off and an interface card install 4-4-2: A parallel interface is the Test failed. Also in this case, you have the switch-Off in the BIOS and the installation of an interface card.
• 4-4-3: This error means the failed Test of a Co-processor. Replace him, if he socketed.

Award BIOS and its error messages 
You have an Award BIOS, it should Start one short beep. Then you can relax and sit back, it's all right. A continuous tone or a short, repeated tone means a failure in the power supply to the motherboard. Mostly it's the memory or on the graphic.

• 2 x short: A video error. As you with this message, proceed, you will be displayed on the screen.
• 1 x long, 1 short: The RAM is faulty or not properly seated in the Socket.
• 1 x long, 2 short: This String tells you that the graphics card is broken, or maybe just not seated properly.
• 1 x long, 3 x short or 3 x length: here is something wrong with the keyboard not. Is a Defect or is not connected properly?

Hardware PC beeps

PC beeps: the significance of the error messages when booting

By David Amoyal → Tuesday, May 13, 2014

If the PC is booting beeps, each error message is a meaning of its own. We will show you how to interpret the signals. If the Computer bee...