I have an HP Pavilion dv2000, running WinXP SP3, with 2 GB RAM. When I turned it on the other day, the computer made a series of three beeps (long - short - short) from its internal speaker, and it will not boot any further. The screen remains blank, there is no BIOS startup screen, etc. and further keypresses will eventually result in the "keypress overload" beeps when a key has been pressed too much.
I removed my HDD and attached it to my desktop to back up the data, but regardless of whether the HDD is in the laptop or not, I get the beeps.
I have searched for this problem in other forums, and one suggestion is that the three beeps on bootup indicates a RAM error. However, I have removed each of my 1GB sticks, one at a time, and attempted to power up the laptop, but I'm stuck with the three beeps.
If anyone has any experience with such a problem, or can point me to possible solutions, I would appreciate the advice.
I removed my HDD and attached it to my desktop to back up the data, but regardless of whether the HDD is in the laptop or not, I get the beeps.
I have searched for this problem in other forums, and one suggestion is that the three beeps on bootup indicates a RAM error. However, I have removed each of my 1GB sticks, one at a time, and attempted to power up the laptop, but I'm stuck with the three beeps.
If anyone has any experience with such a problem, or can point me to possible solutions, I would appreciate the advice.