Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!acsu.buffalo.edu From: jones@acsu.buffalo.edu (terry a jones) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Help needed Message-ID: <59029@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Date: 11 Feb 91 05:51:16 GMT References: <43990@ut-emx.uucp> Sender: news@acsu.Buffalo.EDU Distribution: na Organization: SUNY Buffalo Lines: 21 Nntp-Posting-Host: beatrix.eng.buffalo.edu In article <43990@ut-emx.uucp> everett@emx.utexas.edu (Everett Wang) writes: > > Just after passes warrant period for one month, my micronics computer >is dead. [Stuff Deleted] >After first beep it pauses 1 second then two beeps without pause >then it pauses another second before last beep was heard.(bee beebee bee). Well, if the beep code is correct (1-2-1), the PC manual says that this beep code signifies an 8253 Timer failure. I'd probably grab a scope and start looking there. -- Terry Jones {rutgers,uunet}!acsu.buffalo.edu!jones SUNY at Buffalo ECE Dept. or: rutgers!ub!jones You are in a maze of twisty little compiler features, all different.