2009/7/25 jeremy jozwik <[email protected]>: > so ive been running debian lenny for about a week. everythings been > hunky-dorry until this evening when i turned on my laptop and was > greeted with several seconds of this during the boot up process. > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/godblessbotox/3753646865/ > > along with that gobbely gook it beeps for about 3 seconds. > > am i boned or is there any hope of a recovery to this? > >
Google motherboard beep codes. A three second beep is usually either the video or RAM. Take it apart, reseat it (Hold ground while you do) and try again. You might want to check a few hours of memtest as well. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
