[ltp] three beeps at bootup?

[Joel Ebel]

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?

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 
> 
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