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Re: beep only in windows

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On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 04:16:17 -0700, rusi wrote:

> On my dual boot setup linux is working properly (as far as I can tell)
> But windows starts, goes for a while and then gives a long beep. The
> mouse cursor remains active and sometimes I can even shut windows down
> but usually its hung.
> 
> Does not seem like a BIOS issue because its way past POST. Not exactly a
> hardware issue because then it would (I expect) affect both windows and
> linux.
> 
> Any ideas?

It's probably something wrong with your Windows installation, however 
there are a couple of things that you can check in Linux to see if you 
have a hardware problem. First install the smartmontools so that you can 
check the SMART status of your disk drives, if you have a failing drive 
that would show it. You should also install sys_basher and run the memory 
test. If you are using Fedora or RHEL 5x or CentOS/SL 5x you will find it 
in the EPEL repositories. If are using another distro then you can get the 
source here, it's POSIX C so it will run on any Linux.

http://www.polybus.com/sys_basher_web/

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beep only in windows rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2011-06-07 04:16 -0700
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