I have an old Packard Bell Dimension PC that I use for trying various Linux distros but it seems to have dies very oddly. When I start it up I get the Post screen and can get into the BIOS but after a minute or so it starts beeping, but not the REGULAR bios beeps, they are LIKE an old beep boop of a police car. I have Mandrake on there at the moment and it goes through the loading screens then stops. If you watch the hard drive led it FLASHES in time with the beeps, but the sounds themselves are different lengths and irregular. Having posted a query to the Gigabyte SITE they have told me to get hold of Packerd Bell and that can be more difficult than getting a tree to talk.
I have unplugged all the PERIPHERALS, reset the CMOS, tried differnet SDRAM, graphics card, even mouse and keyboard but nothing seems to work any suggestions?
It is a:
Packard Bell iConnect PC
128MB SDRAM
20 GB Maxtor Quantum Fireball
Creative Labs PCI Graphics Card
AMI Bios
PCI EthernetCould be some kind of warning that the CPU is overheating, the CPU fan isn't turning fast enough, The CPU voltage is wrong?Thanks for that, I am just trying what the Packard Bell forum suggested and reapplying some new thermal paste, I also got a new fan. I will let you know. Thaks for the help.Hope it works out!!