When booting up your system, it is not uncommon to be greeted by one or a series of beeps.

While
hearing one short beep is normal and indicates that your system is booting up, a series of beeps is
usually indicative of some sort of internal error. Each series of beeps corresponds to a different issue
and points to a different problem area in your computer.

This article will teach you how to decipher the beeps coming from your computer so that you can
take the proper steps to restore your system to normal.

How To Recognize Computer Beep Errors

A very short beep is indicative of a problem with your motherboard. It can also mean that you have a
problem with your system memory (BIOS AWARD).

A long beep followed by three sequential short beeps signals an issue linked to your graphics
card configurations.

A short beep followed by three sequential long beeps means that you have a problem with your
system memory.

If you are hearing beep, pause, beep, pause, followed by two sequential beeps, the error is linked
to your CPU (central processing unit).

Three beeps, pause, three beeps, pause, followed by four beeps indicates an issue with video
memory.

One long beep and nine short beeps means there is a problem with the ROM (BIOS AWARD).

Three beeps, pause, four beeps, pause, followed by a beep signals an error with your graphics
card.

Four beeps, pause, three beeps, pause, and then one beep indicates a system memory problem.

Five short beeps is another indication of issues with your CPU.

Long, constant beeps alert system memory problems.

Beeps After Launch

If your PC beeps after your OS has been launched, it could be an indication that your CPU is
overheating. If not addressed immediately, this could be potentially damaging to your system. Clear
space away from your computer, and make sure that your PC fan is running.
How will America deal with
Florida school shooting and
its gun crisis?
WHILE conceding that we are monitoring events
from a great distance, it is not impertinent for
Filipinos to ask the question.
We think it’s fair to shake this once one-way flow
of editorial opinion between the United States and
the Philippines.
Whenever a major event or something untoward
happens in the Philippines, and our national
government is impelled to take decisive action,
American media led by the New York Times and
the Washington Post are quick to lament on how
our government is perennially overmatched against
its problems. The most pessimistic dismiss our
country as a banana republic.
The point now is that the horrific Florida tragedy
has gotten the attention of the whole world, and
nations are wondering whether the US can finally
marshal the political will to pass legislation to
resolve the fundamental problem—gun violence in
America.
The awful reality of the Florida shooting is that it is
the 18th school shooting in America, yet up to now
the world’s only superpower and second biggest
economy has proved incapable of stopping the
menace.
Under the shock of the tragedy, President Trump
conveyed “my prayers and condolences to the
families of the victims of the terrible Florida
shooting.”
House Minority Whip Steny H. Heyer, Maryland
Democrat, asked aloud: “How long before our
nation comes together to address this crisis
responsibly? How much longer must students,
teachers, movie-goers, travelers, workers, public
servants, concert-attendees, worshippers, and
Americans of every kind have to live in fear of
suddenly being in the wrong place at the wrong
time? There should never be a wrong place,
especially when that place is a school.”
Wednesday’s shooting is the worst school massacre
since the December 14, 2012, attack at Sandy Hook
Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut,
which claimed 27 lives in total.
The death toll in Florida is higher than that of the
1998 Columbine massacre that ushered the modern
era of troubled teens and mass killings.
While Columbine drew attention to student killers,
Sandy Hook — perpetrated by the son of a
volunteer at the school — ignited a major debate
over gun control in Washington and in a number of
states. The national outcry was evidently not
enough to prevent the Florida shooting.
We are not the first non-Americans to comment on
the violence happening on US campuses.
Henry Porter, writing in the Guardian, declared:
“American gun use is out of control. The US is
gripped by civil war.”
His argument is compelling: “That 212,994 more
Americans lost their lives from firearms in the last
45 years than in all wars involving the US is a
staggering fact, particularly when you place it in the
context of the safety-conscious, ‘secondary smoke’
obsessions that characterize so much of American
life.
“Everywhere you look in America, people are
trying to make life safer. But there’s no equivalent
effort in the area of privately owned firearms. Most
politicians do everything they can to make the
country less safe.
“No nation sees itself as outsiders do. Half the
country is sane and rational while the other half
simply doesn’t grasp the inconsistencies and
historic lunacy of its position, which springs from
the Second Amendment right to keep and bear
arms… American gun owners cleave to the right
with the tenacity that previous generations fought to
continue slavery.
“Talking to American friends, I sense a kind of
despair that the gun lobby is too powerful to
challenge and that nothing will ever change.”