What do the motherboard beeps mean

All our readers will have noticed that the PC makes a beep when booting normally, this is totally normal and means that the process of checking all the components has been passed satisfactorily. When something fails on our PC, the beep that it makes at startup changes, this is a way to notify us of the problem so we can solve it. We explain the meanings of the different beeps on the motherboard.

Learn how to identify the beeps on the motherboard

The variety of beeps of the different motherboard that our PC has to warn us of various problems is very wide, that is why we have made this guide compiling the most important ones to help you when you have a problem with your computer.

To identify the problem, the first thing we must do is to completely turn off the computer, we can generally do this by holding down the power button. Once turned off, we have to turn it on again and pay attention to the beeps we hear, pointing it in a panel can be very useful in identifying the problem.

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The next step will be to find out which company manufactured the BIOS chip that is on the motherboard of our computer, since the computer industry never agreed on a uniform way to communicate with beeps, so each company uses its own code of beeps. The easiest way to solve this is to open the computer and take a look at the BIOS chip on the motherboard which should have the company name printed or next to it.

For example! On old motherboards it has the classic BIOS AMI (there are quite a few models), when there is a continuous beep it indicates that there is a power failure and you will surely have to change the power supply. OR With two beeps there is a problem with RAM. It is recommended that if you see any failure, write it down and go directly to the manual of your motherboard or contact the manufacturer of your motherboard.

For example, Gigabyte offered us a few years ago a small PCB that plugs into the control panel of each motherboard. It is generic and we have always used it for our benchtable tests for many years. It is very useful, because we have the power button, reset, clear BIOS and the famous internal speaker of the motherboard. ?