I go to boot up my computer today (win ME by the way)and i get this sound - like the sound of a rattlesnake's rattle - and when my screen comes on all i have is like 4 lines of info, like my video info, you know the info that flashed on the screen at begining of boot? But it doesn't continue it just stops there. And the noise continues. I hit a key on keyboard (though i don't know if that had anything to do with what happened next because keyboard did not work after that) and after i hit key, i get long beep, then bursts of beeps, all funny like, and the noise goes from a constant unchanging rattle like tone to now be a different sound, more of a clackety clack sound (kind of like the sound you'd get if the wheels of a bike were spinning and you ran a stick against the spokes) but this sound is not a constant - it kind of stops and starts and strains a bit - really fluctuating. (Have I lost you guys yet??) I tried the reset button several times but every tiem was same.
Is this a sign of some type of hardware failure? Or is it a fluke or what. My computer is maybe 3years old, 4 years tops so its not ancient or anything but....
I know you guys will ask me about my hardware info and cause i'm not too knowledgable about what you might need, i can give you this, and hope its usable....
Processor: GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 8 930 MHz Stepping 6
Math Support: On Chip
BIOS: American Megatrends 06/28/00
Bus Type: PCI,ISA,AGP,USB
Ports: 1 Parallel, 1 Serial
Memory: 128 MB (97% Utilized)
Floppy Disks: 1.44 MB
Hard Disks: 28.63 GB
Multimedia: Sound, CD-ROM
Video: 800x600 in 64K Colors, NVIDIA GeForce2 MX Ver. 4.0
< Operating System >
Windows: 4.90 (Build 3000 )
DOS: 8.0
Net Clients:
Microsoft Network
Is this a sign of some type of hardware failure? Or is it a fluke or what. My computer is maybe 3years old, 4 years tops so its not ancient or anything but....
I know you guys will ask me about my hardware info and cause i'm not too knowledgable about what you might need, i can give you this, and hope its usable....
Processor: GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 8 930 MHz Stepping 6
Math Support: On Chip
BIOS: American Megatrends 06/28/00
Bus Type: PCI,ISA,AGP,USB
Ports: 1 Parallel, 1 Serial
Memory: 128 MB (97% Utilized)
Floppy Disks: 1.44 MB
Hard Disks: 28.63 GB
Multimedia: Sound, CD-ROM
Video: 800x600 in 64K Colors, NVIDIA GeForce2 MX Ver. 4.0
< Operating System >
Windows: 4.90 (Build 3000 )
DOS: 8.0
Net Clients:
Microsoft Network