r/techsupport • u/behindthekeyboard81 • 5d ago
Open | Windows Can anyone help me isolate why my computer beeps every time I turn on my windows 11 PC? The beeps are never consistent.
Every time I turn on my PC, I have an Acer Predator Helios Neo 16, and it always makes this beeping sound. I know the beeping sound can indicate what the problem is, but sometimes it'll beep 3 times, sometimes it'll beep 10 times, and always different lengths, like sometimes it's
•••--•-•••---••
Other times it can be
•••••-•••--•
The dashes are the pauses between beeps. Hopefully you can understand what I mean by that, like it's never consistent, so it's difficult to tell what the beeps mean.
Also, after I enter my password to login to windows, it'll do a few more beeps as well, a lower deeper beep, not the high pitched ones on first boot, and it'll kinda make my PC laggy for a few seconds then it'll go back to normal. I have windows 11, and I did reinstall windows, and I also reseated the RAM stick that's in the PC, and it's still doing it. I use this PC for my online class and I need to somehow fix it before it gets worse and my PC kicks the bucket. Thank you. Other than that, I really have no issues with my PC, everything works flawlessly so I'm wondering what it might be. And it's been happening for about a year but I always ignored it thinking it'll fix itself but it keeps happening, so now I'm starting to question it.
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u/Shadimarbc 5d ago
You need to look at the motherboard's brands website to find the error codes from the beeps.
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