Beware Beeping Bios
...or how a PC can play a merry tune
Friday, April 1, 2005 by Fuzzy Logic | Discussion: PC Hardware
I switched my PC on last night to be greeted with a diddley-diddley-diddley-de. My, I thought, what a merry tune my PC is playing, never knew it could do that. My glee at hearing this tuneful melody was tempered seconds later by the sight of a blue screen and susequent boot failure 
So out came the screwdriver and off came the case cover. Out came components one at a time, sometimes followed by a diddley-diddley-diddley-de, sometimes not. As soon as it booted I headed off to BiosCentral to look up the code - not a diddley-diddley-diddley-de in sight, though I did spot a di-di-diddley-di or two 
So I continued with my quest of stripping the PC to its bare bones. Then I added one component at a time, booting after each and listening for the familiar diddley-diddley-diddley-de. After connecting one of my hard drives (backup), my little diddley-diddley-diddley-de reappeared. I disconnected the IDE cable, still a diddley-diddley-diddley-de. I disconnected the power cable, silence! Re-connected the power cable, diddley-diddley-diddley-de...
It seems on closer inspection one of the power pins on the hard drive is damaged. Easy enough to get a new (larger) hard drive. It could have been worse.
So the moral of this story is: if you hear your PC playing diddley-diddley-diddley-de, don't just sit there humming the tune! 
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Reply #42 Monday, August 1, 2005 4:28 PM
Reply #43 Monday, August 1, 2005 5:24 PM
It seems to have stopped, but dont ask me why updating the new comps BIOS did the trick.
Reply #44 Monday, August 1, 2005 5:44 PM
| Now this morning my 6-year old PC |
| updating the new comps BIOS did the trick |
huh?.........
PSU = Power Supply Unit
Reply #45 Monday, August 1, 2005 8:30 PM
My comps BIOS is/can be verbal....
I keep getting...
"I'm sorry....I can't let you do that, Dave...."
And I keep yelling....
"My name's not 'Dave'...."
But it doesn't help.....
Reply #46 Monday, August 1, 2005 8:32 PM
Reply #47 Monday, August 1, 2005 8:36 PM
| "I'm sorry....I can't let you do that, Dave...." And I keep yelling.... "My name's not 'Dave'...." |
Reply #49 Monday, August 1, 2005 8:38 PM
yah i know the feeling!i too had a simular experence but it was a gain related problem remember folks look at what your downloading someone out there is adding gain to there wigets and themes thats a no no
so check the supported files and its a 90% chance that gains there
Reply #50 Tuesday, August 2, 2005 5:44 AM
| Oh, watch out for the S.M.A.R.T. Warnings... |
This computer does not have SMART (new one does)
I'm also pondering the possibility that when I booted into Linspire it fixed it.....
Reply #51 Tuesday, August 2, 2005 5:45 AM
| Oh, watch out for the S.M.A.R.T. Warnings... |
This computer does not have SMART (new one does)
I'm also pondering the possibility that when I booted into Linspire it fixed it.....
Reply #52 Monday, August 8, 2005 8:57 AM
Rock on Aristotle 
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Reply #41 Monday, August 1, 2005 4:04 PM
Someday I will know half as much......I swear!