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post #1 of 13
9/7/04 at 10:13pm
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When starting my 51m i get 2 quick beeps soon right after pressing the start button,, i use to get 1 beep only,,, but since getting 2 beeps i have done alittle investigating,, i have a AMI Bios,, i have read that 1 beep means alls ok,, but 2 beeps means there is a parity problem. which says that it cant access the first 64k of memory,, which it refers to the ram memory..
now i called AW , and they have told me, thats ok,, and if the computor is working, then theres no problem,,,hahaha,, i guess in their world, is that unless the systems smoking or flames are seen coming out the vents,, then,, theres no problem,,
well i started having problems since last time i called them about windows would not re-install,, and they had me swap out, re-seat and then use one stick of memory,, well finally got windows installed,, but lately the system has been alittle weird,, and the beeps started,,,
like i said, called AW, and they said, alls ok,,, but i took out 1 stick at a time, and i believe i narrowed it down to one stick, causing problems,,

has anyone else had this problem before ? and did the new ram fix problem ?
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post #2 of 13
9/7/04 at 11:34pm
2beeps is GOOD news.
1beep is BAD news.

2beeps = everything is regstered.
1beep = something is wrong.

So bassicly yur computer has fixed itself ;P
nah i dont know but i have always had 2, every syas they get 2.
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post #3 of 13
9/8/04 at 12:02am
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Hmmm,, so then AMI website for BIOS beep codes must be wrong then,,, cause they say 1 beep ok, and 2 is wrong,, good lord,, the more i find out about computors,, the more i hate them...
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post #4 of 13
9/8/04 at 10:00am
Do remember that AW do customise them a bit
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post #5 of 13
9/8/04 at 2:16pm
If your talking about an Area-51M notebook the beep codes are discussed here in this knowledge base thread on Alienware's site. If your talking about another system I am not sure as I only have the notebook.

http://help.alienware.com/cgi-bin/al...Z2U9MQ**&p_li=
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post #6 of 13
9/8/04 at 3:01pm
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Hmmm even more stranger,,, i have nothing hooked up to it,, no mouse no nothing and it still gives 2 quick beeps right after pressing the start button,,
sometimes its 1 beep,, then sometimes its 2 beeps,, then of course the one post beep, comes afterward, which i understand,, just cant figure out why i get 1 or 2 beeps and nothings connected,,
checked to see if running on batterys makes diff,,, not really,, sometimes it gives 1 quick beep, other times,, 2 beeps,,,, rehooked my mouse,, no diff..
wish i know exactly what is going on,, ,, oh if it was going to crap out,, i wish it would,,,lol,, driving me nutzs
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post #7 of 13
9/8/04 at 3:31pm
beep back at it.
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post #8 of 13
9/8/04 at 4:25pm
that must be what they tell you to do at dell
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post #9 of 13
9/8/04 at 6:57pm
Lol
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post #10 of 13
9/8/04 at 7:02pm
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Originally Posted by muns
beep back at it.
Post of the day?
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post #11 of 13
9/8/04 at 7:26pm
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Originally Posted by Craig
Post of the day?
Yup
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post #12 of 13
9/10/04 at 5:33am
I have always been under the impression that 1 beep means passed POST, and 2 is a memory problem, 3 is video, ETC. Regardless, you said yourself you narrowed it down to 1 stick of memory being the culprit. It is most likely defective. If it is still under waranty, send it back. There are lots of memory testing programs out there, you can download one and see if you get errors. there are several free ones on

http://www.snapfiles.com
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post #13 of 13
9/11/04 at 7:59pm
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well, i enabled the bios to post the info when starting up the computor,,
i recheck memory,, seems to be performing ok,, im kinda 50/50 about the memory, cause i think there is some kind of mem leak, but haven't been able to narrow down to exact..
back to BIOS post info,,,
at start-up,,, i have noticed that when it acknowledges mouse usb hook-ups it shows 3......then other times it shows 2,,,, i disconnected my USB mouse and still sometimes it shows 3 or 2 at start up and the beep codes chage with the diff of the hooked up devices,,, so i beleive it is recognizing a conflict of mouse hook ups, or there is a driver conflict,, so i will try and remove and reinstall the touchpad driver and also R/R the USB mouse too..
hopefully this will resolve the problem, will post if the reinstallation of drivers fixed this problem..
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