On 10/07/14 18:13, David Wilkinson wrote:
Hi Clive,
Are the bleeps at a steady pace or are they a mixture of fast and slow
ones, have pauses between them?
Do you have the exact model number, I suspect all of the Dell laptops
use the same code, but you never know.
This site might help http://www.bioscentral.com/postcodes/dellbios.htm
This is the only one with 7 beeps on that site.
1 - 4 - 1 - 1 RAM failure on data bits xxx of high byte on memory
bus Reseat the memory modules
So that would be (assuming I have understood it correctly)
1 beep - pause - 4 beeps - pause - 1 beep - pause - 1 beep
Regards
David
On 10/07/14 16:45, Clive Wills wrote:
My brother's laptop (Dell Inspiron) fails to boot and gives 7 bleeps,
can anyone explain what these bleeps mean please. I know they are a
code indicating a fault, but what?
He is confused as 'Googling' it produces different answers, one of
which is a CPU fault. Any help would be appreciated and if it's
repairable.
I shall be seeing him tomorrow morning (Friday) if anyone can reply
tonight, many thanks.
Looked at the references and none appeared to help but:-
Below is a copy of the reply on what is happening (from my brothers
daughter):-
/The sequence is:
1. Turn on, 15 second wait with black screen (not lit up)
2. 7 beeps -pause- 7 beeps -pause- 7 beeps -pause- 7 beeps (short beeps)
3. And so on...
4. That will keep repeating, I don't know exactly how long but I left
it for 15 minutes beeping one time and it hadn't stopped
5. Only stops when you press the power button once again
Information:
* /
Dell Inspiron M5030
/
* /
Model Number: 5030-0610
/
* /
Reg Model: PO7F
/
* /
Reg Type Number: PO7F002
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* /
Dell Service Tag: 4XTQ7N1
/
/Does this provide any other suggestions on what's wrong, please?
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