The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Continuous beep on boot

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by sydboy84, Apr 25, 2009.

  1. sydboy84

    sydboy84 Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    32
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    I have a Vaio VGN-C21GH and I turned it on today to notice a continuous beep on startup. I haven't used it in about a week.

    About a month ago I fomatted and reinstalled XP (have had XP on here with no trouble previously). I was having a problem with the cursor jumping everywhere. I uninstalled everything under mouse and other pointing devices in device manager and rebooted. All was working fine.

    So a week ago I was using it and connected a usb keyboard and all was working fine. Turned it off and now the beeping issue.

    I have 2x 1gig ddr2 667 sticks. I purchased 2x 2gig ddr 667 ram for a friend and tested my vaio with both in and separately. Same issue.

    Now here is the strange part. The beeping will go on and on. But if I press any key, it will boot into windows fine. The keyboard seems fine, no stuck keys. Don't have any external hdd's connected.

    I can only think of it being a motherboard issue.

    Any suggestions?
     
    sydboy84, Apr 25, 2009
    #1
  2. dondadah88

    dondadah88 Notebook Nobel Laureate

    Reputations:
    2,024
    Messages:
    7,755
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    205
    well it can be your ram. but can you go into your bios? if so set it to default. then save it and restart.
     
    dondadah88, Apr 25, 2009
    #2
  3. sydboy84

    sydboy84 Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    32
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Sorry my bad. Forgot to mention I reset bios to default. Oh and I did try other ram. Cheers.
     
    sydboy84, Apr 25, 2009
    #3
  4. Shyster1

    Shyster1 Notebook Nobel Laureate

    Reputations:
    6,926
    Messages:
    8,178
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    205
    When you say "continuous beep" do you mean one long tone without any breaks in it - bee......................... - or a constant stream of small tones that just never shuts off - beep, beep, beep, .......? If the latter, is there a pattern to the beeps, such as a group of two short beeps and two long beeps that keeps being repeated?
     
    Shyster1, Apr 25, 2009
    #4
  5. sydboy84

    sydboy84 Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    32
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    It's a constant stream of short beeps. No pattern to it at all.
     
    sydboy84, Apr 25, 2009
    #5
  6. sydboy84

    sydboy84 Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    32
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Just to add the beeps are short and really fast.
     
    sydboy84, Apr 25, 2009
    #6
  7. sydboy84

    sydboy84 Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    32
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    I purchased a replacement keyboard off ebay and that worked. The only downside is the keyboard is black compared to the original white keyboard. But actually it does look good. I have since tried the old keyboard and it seems to work fine. The beeping occured once with it. So must be a stuck key.
     
    sydboy84, May 5, 2009
    #7