Have you been hearing beeps from your PC, and wondering what they mean? Those beeps come from your machine’s BIOS (a little piece of software built into the motherboard), and they’re its R2-D2-esque ...

I finally got all the parts together to build a new system around a Tyan Thunder K8SE S2892. I've got 2 Opteron 246 CPUs and 2GB (4x512MB) of Crucial RAM. However, I can't get it to boot ...

When Mohit starts his computer, all he hears is “nonstop beeping,” and then his monitor enters power-saving mode. All I can say is “we’ve all been there,” or at least I certainly have many, many times ...

My buddy got himself an Abit KG7-Lite and a XP 2100+, a 512 PC2100 DIMM, and a Radeon 8500. He plugged it al in, turns it on, he gets no video output, and it gives a beeeeeeeep, pause, beeeeeeeep, ...

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 ...

Each time a user turns on his or her computer, the BIOS gathers information about the major system components and performs a special test called the Power On Self Test (POST) to make sure that each ...