My tower has started beeping and screen goes blank
any ideas
I’ve given it a good hoover to get the dust out the tower and it’s started fine and the beeping stopped but it’s a bit contrary
i’m not a techy so i can’t reseat the ram or remove the ibos battery whatever that means 
chris:
My tower has started beeping and screen goes blankany ideas
I’ve given it a good hoover to get the dust out the tower and it’s started fine and the beeping stopped but it’s a bit contrary
i’m not a techy so i can’t reseat the ram or remove the ibos battery whatever that means
Without knowing the model and O/S I cannot guarantee the information. Have a look on here for the BEEP CODES. It works like the axle configurations on a steam engine.
support.dell.com/support/edocs/s … #wp1052933
1-1-1
1-2-1
2-3-4 etc
Each series of bleeps means something different and tells you were to look, often a hard reboot after cleaning will sort it.
You probably meant the BIOS or CMOS battery
What Wheel Nut says plus note if it’s a long beep or short. It’s like morse code for a ■■■■■■ PC.
But from what you said I’d guess video card, presumably you couldn’t see the BIOS screen
where you press F12 to enter setup.
Colingl:
But from what you said I’d guess video card, presumably you couldn’t see the BIOS screen
where you press F12 to enter setup.
whatever that means 
It means the very first screen that comes up when the PC is switched on and before
Windows launches. 
I gave the tower a bit of mike tyson treatment and it works fine now, but it won’t last
Cheers for your replies, my o/s is vista and never been happy with it
So going to replace tower with new o/s - windows 7
Dust is the biggest killer of PC’s especially in a smoking household,
Beeping nowadays usually means overheating
get a can of squirty air (available at diy chains/plumbers merchants/use the air duster in truck ) and blast the CPU heatsink, when you open the tower there should be a big block of metal with fins/vanes with a fan on top, hold the fan still (very important) with a pencil and squirt a liberal blast through, handy to have the vac hose close and running to catch the detritus. You can finish off cleaning the fan with a dry,unused paintbrush. Do the same for graphics card and power supply, don’t stick anything through into the psu though.
If it’s stil beeping after this, then possibly the cpu heatsink needs a fresh lick of thermal paste, take to your local pc repair man.
chris:
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Cheers for your replies, my o/s is vista and never been happy with itSo going to replace tower with new o/s - windows 7
Vista has never been happy with anything, there have been pc repair engineers that have happily retired on the funding that Vista has created for them.
Before you do anything else remove the ram and reseat it. If theres more than 2 sticks ov ram remove 1 at a time and see if it reboots without the beeps. Could be dodgy ram. Usually is or just not seated properly. Dont remove heatsink if you dont lnow what your doing or you could fry the processor.