An odd computer problem

[Dragoon de Sol]

Okay, here's my problem:


Everytime I try to start up my computer after it shuts down, it beeps like this

Beep
...
Beep beep beep
...
Beep beep beep
...
...
Beep
...


And it stops trying to start up.

It happens anywhere from seconds to about five-six hours before it wont do it period.

After about forty minutes of turning ti on and off, I manage to get it to turn on correctly.

Does anyone know what my problem might be?

[Grandy]

That's an S.O.S. message. Try and look up to the sky at night to see if you spot a broken spaceship.

 Alternativaly, I don't know the real answer.

[DragonBlaze]

Does anything come up on the screen before that? Like your bios screen or the boot log screen?

Anyway, if that happens, you most likely have a 'bad' part somewhere that needs to be replaced. However, it could be a corrupt bios, which is a little easier to fix, but requires you to open up your computer and manulally reset the bios. The best way to do this would be to look in the instruction book that came with your motherboard/computer (I don't know if you can do it with a laptop or not), there should be three prongs sticking up somewhere (there pretty small), and there will be a 'cap' over two of them. Take the cap off and put it over the other two, wait a second, take the cap off and put it where it was originally, and you have just reset your bios.

Most of the time when something happens to my computer that won't allow it to boot up, resetting the bios works.

[Dragoon de Sol]

There's no screen that comes up. And would that work on a laptop?

[Dragonium]

When you boot up, can you go into Setup? I remember I had a problem like that once, and I went into Setup upon booting up, got into this command prompt type thing, not 100% sure how, and fixed the boot code or whatever (I believe "fixboot" was the prompt). It worked fine after that.

[Dragoon de Sol]

If you mean when it beeps, no. But other than that, tomorrow I'll try it.

[Cosmos]

mabbe you should just see if you can get it fixed professionally.. sometimes tampering with things can make it erm worse. <<...

[DragonBlaze]

Yeah, if its a laptop, I'd just bring it in to get fixed, well at least if its under warrenty. If its not, you're almost better off buying a new computer, because if  the cpu or motherboard on your laptop is bad, it'll cost you almost $600 to fix it (at least thats what the guys wanted to charge me to fix my laptop when it broke)

[Dragoon de Sol]

I've been wanting to get a new one. But, unfortunately, we're having money problems.

[Cosmos]

Oh..