BIOS/POST beeps, but everything seems fine...
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 10:14 pm
Here's an interesting one... I'm getting the long-short-short beep pattern at POST -- but so far as I can tell, everything is fine. I did read the web page which says it's either a DIMM issue, video card, or system board. But all of these seem fine; I haven't changed any internal hardware.
I get the same beep pattern whether docked or undocked; with battery and AC, with just battery (undocked only, of course), and with just AC.
The System Toolbox diagnostics all pass except for the serial port either fail or aren't runnable. But they of course aren't part of the system itself, just the dock, so that seems like it has to be a separate issue. I reran the system board tests undocked; no com port; everything passed.
RAM still shows the 4096MB from Lenovo; in addition to System Toolbox, I noticed a Windows Memory Test that seemed to appear when I set up Windows 7 Beta on its own partition (used msconfig to select between them at boot). It ran fine, too.
The bootable PC Doctor utility from the downloaded image locks up the computer when it's just loading the test for the Conexant Smart Modem Interrupt, but that tests okay when booted to Windows and I was able to send a fax, so I suspect an error in the copy I burned to CD.
Is there *any* way to figure out exactly what it is that has the BIOS/POST worried? Any other thoughts? I makes me nervous, honestly...
I get the same beep pattern whether docked or undocked; with battery and AC, with just battery (undocked only, of course), and with just AC.
The System Toolbox diagnostics all pass except for the serial port either fail or aren't runnable. But they of course aren't part of the system itself, just the dock, so that seems like it has to be a separate issue. I reran the system board tests undocked; no com port; everything passed.
RAM still shows the 4096MB from Lenovo; in addition to System Toolbox, I noticed a Windows Memory Test that seemed to appear when I set up Windows 7 Beta on its own partition (used msconfig to select between them at boot). It ran fine, too.
The bootable PC Doctor utility from the downloaded image locks up the computer when it's just loading the test for the Conexant Smart Modem Interrupt, but that tests okay when booted to Windows and I was able to send a fax, so I suspect an error in the copy I burned to CD.
Is there *any* way to figure out exactly what it is that has the BIOS/POST worried? Any other thoughts? I makes me nervous, honestly...
