I recently installed a new hard drive and have had issues with the BIOS beeping. Before I started the reinstall, the AMI BIOS made one long beep and three short. During the reinstallation, once WinXP SP2 was installed, during bootup I only got one short beep. I did a system restore due to some issues installing an HP printer, and restored to just before SP2 installed, was able to install my printer, scanner, and then I reinstalled SP2. Now my BIOS makes one short beep, stops, another short beep, stops again, then follows with 3 more quick beeps, and finally stops. The computer does boot into XP, and nothing is apparently wrong in there. I'm just wondering if it's anything to be seriously concerned about in the future. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks, ~G.

You decided to ignore the beeps and go on with a reinstall? 1 long beep and 3 short beeps - conventional or extended memory failure...usually means a memory module isn't seated properly 1 short beep - means everything should be fine...it's normal 3 short beeps - memory problems. if the video's working, then you have a parity error in the first 64k of memory. First try reseating your memory modules...if that doesn't work, switch your memory modules (switch first and 2nd bank of memory...so that the chip that had the first 64k will be replaced)..if this works, then the memory that was in 1st bank (but moved to 2nd bank) is bad. If the memory tests are good, then your motherboard probably needs to be replaced