Is anybody familiar with HP Pavilion beep codes?

Factual Questions
1

My stepdaughter’s computer (my former system) is an HP Pavilion 785 running WinME. Today she turned it on and nothing happened other than a series of beeps (1-3-3-1).

I tried to use the restore disc, but the same thing happened. I also tried a bootdisk from Bootdisk.com, but it would not boot from it.

The harddrive will spin up and stop, but nothing else.

I’ve emailed HP, but I don’t know if they’ll be able to help me because it’s been so long since I bought the computer (April 2001).

Some help?

2

Beep codes for common BIOS manufacturers

3

It says “28 Autosize DRAM”.

Huh?

4

You didn’t mention it was a C or A model Pavilion. This Link is for the C model. Or course maybe the A is the same?

Give it a try anyways :wink:
Good Luck
Jim

5

Pull and re-seat the memory. Pull and re-seat all the PCI cards. Unplug and replug the hard drives. See what happens.

6

JimMacMillan: There’s no letter after the number.

astro: I’ll open it up tomorrow and try all that stuff. I’ll post results afterward.

Thanks for all the help, everyone!

7

Finally got around to it and reseated the memory.

Voila!

Thanks, astro.