Re: Toshiba Satellite A85-S107 Laptop POST Constant Beeping
Paul <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.hardware |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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On 9/7/2022 3:16 PM, [email protected] wrote: > On Tue, 6 Sep 2022 10:13:55 +0200, Marco Moock <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Am Montag, 05. September 2022, um 07:15:52 Uhr schrieb >> [email protected]: >> >>> Does anyone know what a constant beeping (POST) indicates? >> >> Maybe CPU/GPU too hot. Can you see the temperatures in the BIOS? >> Maybe it is necessary to clean the fan and to replace the thermal >> compound. > > Hi Marco, > > I never saw a temperature reading in the BIOS settings. > > FYI: The constant POST beeping occurs at bootup (laptop is cool). > > John On an OEM computing device, the BIOS can be simplified and then the "Hardware Monitor" page is missing. That does not mean the BIOS logic has been simplified, just you can't see what it is doing. Part of BIOS programming, is to use a GUI tool to decide what parts of the BIOS are visible in BIOS screens. When someone hacks that, settings become visible that were previously hidden (but still have default values). This is how I got SpeedStep enabled on my Asrock VIA board, a hacked BIOS did it. The Intel lawyers sought to stop Asrock from offering SpeedStep, as "chipset was VIA" :-/ The SuperIO usually has the measurement capability, and since SuperIO chips are almost always present, it means the machine likely has the ability to measure things. The modern BIOS has some way for ACPI to offer resistive divider scaling information, so that programs like Speedfan can get proper voltage readings automatically. In the "old days", users plugged in scaling info, by hand, and it was compiled in tabular form on a few web sites. VCore could be out of range. A donkey siren noise is sometimes used for overheat at runtime. A continuous beep pattern, may need the services of one of those BIOS specialty sites. https://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm This site may have originally collected the info, but it's loaded with adverts, and go here, only if the other site is not sufficient. http://www.bioscentral.com/beepcodes/awardbeep.htm Paul