Came downstairs to a dead PC this morning. Wouldn't boot up and SWMBO's laptop couldn't access Broadband through the wireless cable/DSL router which is connected to the PC via a LAN card. :(

Tried booting up a couple of times and then heard a BIOS error code - one long and 3 short beeps. Fortunately SWMBO hadn't taken her laptop to school today and it can access OneTel.Net via its inbuilt modem. A couple of minutes later I had the error beep code decode - conventional/extended memory failure. A quick hoover out of the PC's innards including fans (all filthy), followed by removal and cleaning of both 256Mb chips and hoovering of the sockets, and the PC was back in action. I am now going to print off the AMI BIOS POST error codes so that I have them to hand next time.

Always good to have a second PC connected to the internet in this situation

Chris

sounds like Kim and Aggy need to vist your house Denis.....

sounds like Kim and Aggy need to vist your house Denis.....

Do they do dusting as well as car washing, Paul?

:eek:

sounds like Kim and Aggy need to vist your house Denis.....

Ahh, are they the deluxe models with three interfaces? :naughty:

http://www.channel4.com/life/microsites/H/how_clean_is_your_house/index.html

Aah. Thought it was the ladies around your motor on Sunday, mentioned in the caption competition thread. Oops. Not quite the same

Aah. Thought it was the ladies around your motor on Sunday, mentioned in the caption competition thread. Oops. Not quite the same

So I wasn't alone. And there was I thinking that Paul was being kind to me for a change. :(

PS We use a program called 'Crapfilter' to switch our TVs off whenever the likes of Kim and Aggy, Jim Davidson, Kilroy-Silk (before sacked) etc appear on TV.

Aah. Thought it was the ladies around your motor on Sunday, mentioned in the caption competition thread. Oops. Not quite the same

Not exactly MILF are they?

Came downstairs to a dead PC this morning. Wouldn't boot up and SWMBO's laptop couldn't access Broadband through the wireless cable/DSL router which is connected to the PC via a LAN card. :(

Tried booting up a couple of times and then heard a BIOS error code - one long and 3 short beeps. Fortunately SWMBO hadn't taken her laptop to school today and it can access OneTel.Net via its inbuilt modem. A couple of minutes later I had the error beep code decode - conventional/extended memory failure. A quick hoover out of the PC's innards including fans (all filthy)' date=' followed by removal and cleaning of both 256Mb chips and hoovering of the sockets, and the PC was back in action. I am now going to print off the AMI BIOS POST error codes so that I have them to hand next time.[/quote']

Most of the beep codes you get are related to memory or video card, so a reseat of the memory simms and video card sorts most of them out, IMHO.

Of course, you can get the odd one that's unfixable, like when plonker's put th e SIMMs in backwards, and stuffed the memory controller electronics......

Phil