beeps at startup (or not)

I hope someone can help me.

I have a compaq presario sr1719uk desktop pc, over 3 or 4 years.

apparently it has a msi 7184 motherboard and processor athlon 64 34004 running windows xp home edition.

This is not my main machine so can go to 3 or 4 weeks without use, but I keep all my music, family photos, important documents, etc on it. I had a few errors blue screen in recent months, but all seemed well when restarting.

However, when I did turn the machine on the monitor this morning showed no signal.  I checked all connections and all seem ok.

The fan is running and the lights on the dvd player, but the machine will beep once almost immediately I turn on it and then continuous beep without actually starting.

The beep is 1 single beep, a duration of 1 second about then 2 second pause 1 beep 2 second pause 1 beep etc.

I am not very computer but I have read that these beeps give a clue as to what the problem is.

If anyone can help I would be very grateful

Thanks I advance

Hi jonsiduk,

The beep is probably due to bad memory, or maybe the memory is not installed on the PC. Try to open the PC to see if there is a problem with the memory.

Here are a few documents Support HP to use as a reference:

BIOS Beep Codes

The upgrade (RAM RAM)

Let us know how it goes.

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