dan@blender.UUCP (Dan Keizer) (11/15/89)
I've inherited at work a compaq 286 portable. It has one annoying problem, instead of beeping once as normal pc's do when they boot, this thing beeps twice. At one point in time, it wouldn't boot of the hard disk, which required a "fine adjustment" to fix. Still works fine, yet why is it beeping twice. Is this an error report of some type? There are no messages as such at the boot process, so I'm a little perplexed. Any answers? BTW: Has anyone ever heard of a company called ANO. They're distributors/ resellers of systems they assemble in Vancouver somewhere I think (or some suburb of it). We got one in the office, and I'd like to know what others have to say. -- Dan Keizer UUCP: ...!uunet!{ubc-cs|watmath}!calgary!xenlink!blender!dan
plim@hpsgpa.HP.COM (Peter Lim) (11/23/89)
But it boots okay right ? Well, there is really no standard governing how many beeps are you supposed to produce on power on. Don't know about Compaq, but the HP Vectra QS/20 at work here produces two beeps on power on. For a while I thought something was not installed correctly. Regards, Peter Lim. HP Singapore IC Design Center. E-mail address: plim@hpsgwg.HP.COM Snail Mail address: Peter Lim Hewlett Packard Singapore, (ICDS, ICS) 1150, Depot Road, Singapore 0410. Telephone: (065)-279-2289
suominen@kannel.lut.fi (Juha Suominen) (11/23/89)
I use a Compaq SLT/286 portable. It beeps always twice when it boots. It has always done that. I think it is normal. (Actually, I *hope*...) Juha Suominen
randy@rls.UUCP (Randall L. Smith) (11/25/89)
In article <1047@kannel.lut.fi>, suominen@kannel.lut.fi (Juha Suominen) writes: > I use a Compaq SLT/286 portable. It beeps always twice when it boots. > It has always done that. I think it is normal. (Actually, I *hope*...) Yes, it is normal. It is telling you that it is starting up in the faster of the two speeds it runs. E.g. 8 Mhz instead of 6 Mhz for a 6/8 Mhz Compaq 286, or 12 Mhz instead of 8 Mhz for a 8/12 Mhz Compaq. If it beeps once, its saying I'm starting in the lower speed. Hope this helps. Cheers! - randy Usenet: randy@rls.uucp Bangpath: ...<backbone>!osu-cis!rls!randy Internet: rls!randy@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
mikem@copper.WR.TEK.COM (Mike Mihalik) (12/08/89)
In article <1047@kannel.lut.fi>, suominen@kannel.lut.fi (Juha Suominen) writes: > > I use a Compaq SLT/286 portable. It beeps always twice when it boots. > It has always done that. I think it is normal. (Actually, I *hope*...) > > Juha Suominen It beeps twice when the processor clock rate is set the fastest, and once when the clock rate is the slowest. I don't think this is documented; I found it by trial and error. See docs on mode speed command. Mike Mihalik