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11-21-2020 12:55 AM
My Fiance's computer was running fine on with google open and it just black screened and shut down and started beeping. Now it beeps whenever I try to boot it up. I don't have any compatible RAM to test with it, but I did try and remove one RAM stick at a time and the same thing occurred, 5 beeps and a blinking red light
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11-21-2020 03:41 AM
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c04658261
DEAD PC:
page 93 states bad DIMM Ram. so test them all 1 by 1. ( one must be good, one can hope, and expect)
7 year old PC check the RTC coin cell battery , below 2.9vdc is bad, 3.3v par.
if the coin fails the beep code might lie to you , so we check MR coin first. (voltmeter any)
did you do a zero power reset yet,?
is still dead, strip PC down to minimum system. and retest it,
11-21-2020 03:41 AM
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c04658261
DEAD PC:
page 93 states bad DIMM Ram. so test them all 1 by 1. ( one must be good, one can hope, and expect)
7 year old PC check the RTC coin cell battery , below 2.9vdc is bad, 3.3v par.
if the coin fails the beep code might lie to you , so we check MR coin first. (voltmeter any)
did you do a zero power reset yet,?
is still dead, strip PC down to minimum system. and retest it,
11-21-2020 09:50 AM - edited 11-23-2020 11:18 PM
I did test the RAM one at a time. Will have to test the battery at the beginning of the month.
Edit: Just tested the RTC coin cell battery by swapping it out and it booted up just fine, so here's to hoping that was the only issue
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