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Hi all,
I have an acer laptop 4 years old running xp. It has developed a hardware fault so that end of post I get 2 beeps and a message about a resource conflict.
Luckily I am told to press F1 to continue or F2 to enter bios. When I press F1 windows continues to load normally and then discovers new hardware the ethernet port which I try to install the drivers for.
Drivers fail to install no matter what I have tried to do, so I have disabled the ethernet port which stops windows xp from trying to install after each restart.
Returning the laptop to its factory condition makes no difference, it is definitely a hardware fault om the ethernet port in laptop which I can live with, wireless internet works fine
The annoying thing is the beeps at startup, can't see anything in a rather limited bios to disable the port, have tried to disable netowrk but no difference.
At least the laptop is working fine otherwise just the annoying beeps at startup and have to press F1 to load windows.
I know its definitely a hardware fault so would appreciate any ideas on how to fix it rather than having to get a new motherboard.
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There might be a support forum for your brand of laptop but unless there's a bios setting to disable, there might not be a (cheap)good answer. Wyndham
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I complete windows install does not solve the issue?
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Well AMI BIOS is the only BIOS that has a 2 beep code. If it indeed is an AMI BIOS the beep code indicates that there is an issue with the first block of memory.
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Make a backup of your hard drive!
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Without actually being able to see the BIOS screen(s) is is difficult to say. Most systems allow you to disable on board resources like Ethernet ports, sound cards, even the video... But the access will be vendor specific, and often even model specific. I wish I could give you a definitive answer but I can't. My best suggestion is to FULLY explore every BIOS screen and to concur with the earlier suggestion to check out some Acer support forums.
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Thanks very much for all replies, I will try one of the acer forums and maybe even give a quick call to acer support.
I should have had it looked at last year when it was within the 3 year guarantee, but daughter was the main user and could live with the annoyance of the beep at startup.
Got her a new acer laptop so I have the old one. If it takes too much to fix will just live with it too, just a bit of annoyance at each startup.
thanks again
Martin
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Martin,
It might be worth searching the internet and seeing if this behavior is a symptom of the CMOS battery and that it is starting to become flat.
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Try taking the first RAM bank out and replacing it with the second one. Periphery unit faults normally show up when windows loads, sounds more like power or memory problem. I've had similar problems, once it was a RAM bank, once the battery unit connections.
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Try taking the first RAM bank out and replacing it with the second one. Periphery unit faults normally show up when windows loads, sounds more like power or memory problem. I've had similar problems, once it was a RAM bank, once the battery unit connections.
That's what I said above. The beep code supports this theory.
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Hi again everybody,
Thanks very much for the further input on this. Once windows xp loads on laptop after I press F1 then the system runs fine.
If its a memory problem as Sinbad or Silverstones think it could well be, would running the Memtest application show up any errors on the memory block, without having to remove the memory from the laptop?
thanks very much again,
Martin
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Yes, IF you let it run for a long period of time, like overnight.
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Martin, I would also physically look at the ethernet port. There's a possibility that two of the conducting wires got crunched together somehow. That might also give you a fault indications, and it's easy to check.
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Thanks Gary, Do you mean to look within the port viewable from the outside of the laptop or screw off the bottom of laptop and look inside?
Thanks Martin
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Hi Martin, Gary means to simply look into the port from the outside. There are 8 "wires" - actually Beryllium-Copper "springs" that are held under tension and which slip into the little notches in the RJ45 plug on the end of your patch lead when you plug it in. If some of these wires have been pushed out of position and are touching each other there is a possibility that the POST is detecting the fault.
BTW, while anything is possible, I'd be very surprised if you find a memopry fault based on the lack of report of strange things/unreliability once the machine is up and running.
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Just checked the wires on the ethernet and they seem fine,will do a memtest on the memory and see what happens.
Probably will live with it then as its just a bit of an annoyance 2 beeps +having to press f1 at startup. Otherwise the computer runs fine in xp. I do have vista installed as well but its really slow.
Martin
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I assume you checked Acer for a BIOS update? Sometimes that can fix the problem. You may consider re-installing the BIOS even if it is the same version. Also, check in the Device Manager properties for the actual device causing the conflict. Perhaps you can change a resource setting IRQ, etc there.
For what it's worth, I had a machine that gave me two beeps because of a defective hard drive.
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In case your PC is an Acer 5*** Series laptop, perhaps this thread from another forum will shed some light on the problem. http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread96933.html I found it and other references by Googling "Acer laptop + 2 beeps and a message about a resource conflict". Hope this is helpful.
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