my sisters old crappy com will not start up it has WinME LOL, and now the piece of crap dosent start it turns on but no screen i tryed everything, it gives off one long beeb and then 2 short beebs when i start , i cant find a page that tells u the dos sounds.. can anyone enlighten me as to what that means.. i dunno win ME it sux i got Win XP pro(only way to go i think) plz repost here AND send tell to my e-mail PLZ at Sysinput@hotmail.com i probly will forget to check back so id apreciate it if u e-mailed me a response.. thank you

Elmerfud, several things come to mind. First thing to do is decipher the beeps. They signal that during POST a problem was detected. Find an explaination of beep codes @: http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm or http://sysopt.earthweb.com/biosbmc.... Find a troubleshooting guide @: http://www.pcguide.com/ts/x/sys/beep/ Once you've got that sorted, I strongly recommend you follow 'Trev's Tweaks ...' @: http://www.burzurq.com/forum/trevtw... to improve ME. I did and it REALLY helped me. Made ME into a well behaved OS with only 64 meg. memory. If she has a really old machine, take a look at the amount of memory it has. Lots of older machines suffered from too little. Any additional can really help things along. HTH. Ed in Texas.