The sounds your PC tower makes when you reboot or turn your PC on are not always noises you can simply ignore. Before your PC boots its operating system, the motherboard runs a suite of diagnostic ...

When a personal computer starts, it runs a Power-On Self Test (POST) to check that various hardware components are working correctly. If problems are detected, the computer will not start. This test ...

If you’re hearing strange beeping sounds, maybe 3 beeps, while trying to boot up your Windows computer, then this post will help you. Some users are reporting that, for some reason, their computer is ...

Q: I dropped my Dell Inspiron laptop on a hard tile floor. Fortunately, the PC still runs properly, and I ran some diagnostic tests that found nothing wrong. But now, every time the PC starts it gives ...

When the computer sends out more than one beep, it usually means something is wrong at the hardware level. The computer may not beep or generate a series of beeps in a fixed pattern. Some are ...

I get a continuous beep when running an old Pentium 200 MMX computer with Windows 95. It doesn't happen until after the computer and OS is up and working. And sometimes it doesn't happen at all. I ...

OK, so recently I was having some instability on an overclocked system. I was running my P4 1.6A at 2.4GHz, overvolted to 1.6 - 1.65V for nigh on a year with few problems, but as my temp was sort of ...