[ltp] three beeps at bootup?

[Alejandro Bonilla]

Joel Ebel wrote:

> I'm pretty sure for me three beeps means low battery.  Can you boot it 
> on AC without a battery connected at all and still get the three beeps?

I get 3 beeps to tell me my HD password went fine.

- Alejandro

>
> Joel
>
> Seth Kulick wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a T30 that's coming up on 3 years old, and I'm getting a little
>> nervous about its reliability.  It had a system board replaced about 
>> a year
>> ago, but other than there have been almost no problems.  it's a dual 
>> boot,
>> with XP/Redhat 8.0
>>
>> The only problems have had to do with linux. (although I almost never
>> run it with windows).  Once in a while if I leave it untouched for a 
>> while - about 1/2 hour or so - it will freeze up.  Most of the time this
>> doesn't happen, but just every so often.  The other day something new 
>> happened.  I had closed it so it went into suspend, and then opened it
>> up, and it didn't come back to life.  (It was on AC when it went into
>> suspend, and on AC when I opened it.).  I held the power switch and
>> rebooted, and then on reboot just got three beeps and nothing happened.
>> Not even the windows boot manager (I have it set up so that I modified
>> BOOT.INI, so that Linux is one of the choices from the Windows boot.)
>> I waited a minute, tried again, and it worked.
>>
>> Today, when booting it up from a power-down state, I got the three beeps
>> again.  I tried again, and it worked okay.  I'm wondering if it is 
>> perhaps
>> a power issue.  Before trying it again, I took out the battery and then
>> put it back.  I am not sure if the first time it was on battery power
>> and then when I retried it it was on AC.  I was  a bit frazzled when it
>> didn't boot up so I'm unclear.
>>
>> But has anybody had any experience with the three beeps and die at 
>> power on?  What does it mean?  I realize this isn't a specifically
>> linux question, so my apologies. I think this thing is still under
>> warranty, so I'm just trying to gather information before calling IBM.
>> thanks.
>>
>>
>> Seth
>>