Bios continuous beep sound on startup

You need a new video card

Sounds like you may have bad RAM(memory)

If you can get into the bios you may find the problem.

Below are IBM BIOS Beep codes that can occur. However, because of the wide variety of models shipping with this BIOS, the beep codes may vary. Beep Code Description Document No Beeps No Power, Loose Card, or Short. CH000312 1 Short Beep Normal POST, computer is ok. No problem 2 Short Beep POST error, review screen for error code. See screen Continuous Beep No Power, Loose Card, or Short. CH000607 Repeating Short Beep No Power, Loose Card, or Short. CH000607 One Long and one Short Beep Motherboard issue. CH000607 One Long and Two Short Beeps Video (Mono/CGA Display Circuitry) issue. CH000607 One Long and Three Short Beeps. Video (EGA) Display Circuitry. CH000607 Three Long Beeps Keyboard / Keyboard card error. CH000304 One Beep, Blank or Incorrect Display Video Display Circuitry. CH000607

Number of Beeps: Failure Coverage 1) BIOS ROM checksum inprogress or failure. BIOS Chip 2) No RAM Detected No Memory Detected NoMemory Detected 3) Chipset Error (North and South Bridge Chipset,DMA/IMR/Timer Error for Intel platform); Chipset Error Motherboard FailureTime-Of-Day Clock test failure. Gate A20 Failure Super I/O Chip Failure KeyboardController Test Failure Motherboard Failure 4 )RAM Read/Write Failure Memory Failure 5 )RTC Power Fail. COMS Battery Failure 6 )Video BIOS Test Failure Video Card Failure 7 )CPU Cache test failure CPU Failure 8 )LCD LCD Failure

A single continuous beep on boot up usually indicates a stuck key on your keyboard.

Check the the cpu, ram and video card are seated properly. If they all are, then the board is defective and will need to be replaced.

Try this links:
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Hello

OK, because there is different beep codes for different problems, hence, you will need to be more specific on the particular beep code you are getting.

Please let me know when you have the sufficient information.

Kind regards
Andrea

First you need to know which BIOS you have and how many beeps it is producing... these beeps are the POST - Power On Self Test. They tell us if there are problems such as missing keyboard, video card not working, memory faults etc...

Then you need to go to the appropriate BIOS site and see what the number of beeps mean.

If it is a single beep - it means all is well...
As you are not getting anything more you should check to see if the Hard Drive (HD) light flashes - if so - the HD is probably operating ok and loading your system but there is either a problem with your monitor or video card... borrow another monitor and see if that helps...

But it all depends on the number of beeps you get and what kind - long and short beeps (like morse code).

If this helped you at all please vote!

Its not Hard Drive that makes beeping sound its your mainboard. Check in Bios (if possible) that HD is recognised properly. Disconnect HD form computer and then start computer without HD to see wheather the problem is still there. If not, connect another HD (preferably not more than 40 GB) and use a new IDE cable if applicable. Some HP PCs record in Bios their original HD serial number preventing replacement of HD. In worst case the HD controller on Mainboard is not working properly or may be defected.