[des1o]

Hello,

I'm having 4 beeps that happen every time I boot my computer. I use Windows XP Home (I know its bad)

I've looked it up, and I believe it might be "System Timer Failure." I'm not sure though. Not sure at ALL. There's no error message, and they really don't effect the computer's performance at all. At least I don't think.

It only happens when I boot. It beeps 3 fast short times and then 1 short time, a long-but-random time after the 3 fast short times. All of this takes place on the initial logon screen where in windows you login to your account.

What I'd like to do, if possible is get rid of the beeps. I've thought about going in to the "gray" Windows System Diagnostics screen inside the OS, and test it all from there, but I wasn't able to find anyone on the net who could tell me how to do that. Someone did tell me that I could hold down F10 when I restart, before the Windows Logo screen, and I knew that, but I can't get it to work.

Any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks!

des1o

[bigbear]

Try reseating the memory and then run memtest, you might have a stick of ram failing
http://www.memtest.org/

[des1o]

I downloaded the mt201.exe onto my flash drive, but how do I run it? Do I just restart with the flash drive in the computer? When I try to run it, it just flashes and then goes away.

And Thanks!

[bigbear]

You need to create a bootable cdrom from here http://www.memtest86.com/

[des1o]

I created a disc, but I don't know if I should boot from the cd yet. It's got an install file, rawrite.exe, readme, and a memtest.bin. What do I do from here?