July 29, 200521 yr a single beep is normal but a series of beeps are not. these beeps are a diagnostic telling you weither it is a software or hardware problem. several good sites online lets you decode these beeps
July 29, 200521 yr Guys guys guys! You're overanalyzing and overcomplicating all of this... @hakeem5454: When you installed the new hard drive, your BIOS recognised that the system's hardware configuration has changed and beeped to let you know that. It still keeps doing that after you took out the hard drive you added because by removing the hard drive you changed the system configuration again.What you don't see is that because you have the giant SONY logo shown, you're not seeing the system's messages. There is a system message that will go with that beep saying that the hardware configuration has changed and to press a certain key to accept the changes.All you have to do to stop this beeping from occuring is to go into your BIOS and accept the changes to your hardware configuration. Just going into your BIOS and exiting right away while saving changes is sufficient to accept the change in hardware. Edited July 29, 200521 yr by jcarle
July 30, 200521 yr While the computer is booting up (during the SONY logo), keep hitting DEL. If that doesn't work, try F1, F2 or F10.
July 30, 200521 yr how many beeps? if it's just one, than it may be perfectly normal. one beep means, if i'm correct, that BIOS did it's thing OK and now the system has been turned over to the OS. if it's more than one, then it's a troubleshooting code whose meaning may be in your MB manual, or the vendor website.to those who mention "grinding" hard drives, if the drive is reading/writing properly (no data loss) and checks out OK with a disk checking utility (chkdsk), then all is probably OK. it's very normal to hear a sort of muffled grinding noise from a drive as it reads/writes data. some drives are much louder than others.
July 30, 200521 yr ya one beep is fine, dont bother messing with ur bios if u dont know what ur doing just for a beepand grinding hdds are so annoying, i can here one which is in the other room
July 30, 200521 yr If you could somehow record the beep and post it online, any one of us could tell you if it's normal or not.
July 30, 200521 yr Author i have no way of recording it :Sits a short beep that wasnt there when i first got the computer but started to happen when i added then removed the harddrive?
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