i own a compaq 5410us, 1.3 celeron 512mb running windows xp home, i use this mostly for gaming and lastnight i went to bed and left my game running, when i woke up the screen was froze, i couldnt get cntl-alt-del to open up to close the window so i turned the power off to reboot, when i turned the power back on the monitor power came on but showed nothing at all, a strange audible alarm was going off and a small green light next to the power button was blinking. I thought at 1st it was the monitor was fried but it works with my brothers tower. Any advice?
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Jump to PostNow the exact nature of this alarm would be interesting... was it a POST beep code, consisting of long and short signals or was it something else?
If it was a POST beep code, count the dashes (long) and the dots (short). Together with the information about who made …
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