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DavidA:
A worrying development with my HP Pavillion Slimline tower computer.

At switch on today all I am getting is the following .

Two second tone.  pause. another two second tone. pause, a five second tone.

It then waits for  few seconds and repeats this sequence, three times in all.

No sound from the hard drive and no video.

Any one recognize this problem ?

I've done the remove all plugs and replace routine.

Dave.

(who is hoping that the hard drive will transfer to another machine if all else fails)  :bang:

John Rudd:
Not easy to identify without knowing what mobo/bios....
But, generally speaking sounds like a duff graphics card.....Have you tried removing it and reseating it?

DavidA:
John.

Since I posted I have been looking around the HP info on the net.

It appears that the code refers to a problem with the graphics card, as you suggest.
But the big problem is that the HP Pavilion doesn't have a separate card. It is part of the motherboard.

Roughly translated it seems to imply that the mother board is knackered. And so is the computer.

I have been having trouble with the red occasional dropping out on the video. That may have been the early warning sign.

I have the monitor from this faulty machine running on another one at the moment, the colour is ok. I'll leave it running for an hour or two to see what happens.

I think 'oh bugger ! is the phrase I am looking for.

Dave.

sparky961:
If there's a slot available you might try an external graphics card.

DavidA:
Sparky,

Good idea, problem is I don't have a spare to try it with.

Here is how I am thinking at the moment.

I am working on the assumption that the hard drive is ok.

It would seem a good idea to get a new machine.  I have been looking at some of the Zoostorm options.
I was hoping to transfer the hard drive to one of my other machines, but it turns out that it is a SATA drive. and the others aren't.

So, What do you think if this idea.

I get a new Zoostorm machine without an operating system (cheaper) and just swap the new hard drive (a SATA) for my existing drive that has the files and the Vista OS from the duff machine.

Dave.

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