Good morning.

With my crappy Internet-connection I tried to find the list of post signals for this notebook which bugs a friend of mine. The search engines furnish a lot of discussions but none which points me at the meaning of the post signals. And anyway, I am unable to read them all. My connection speed will be back to normal only on the 23rd of July.

The machine comes with an NVidia motherboard, the bios says its name were InsydeH20. The whole user-manual for the notebook is available on the web, but I cannot download it, due to a bunch of problems that have no place in this thread.

Would someone know a place with a clean list of post signals and their explanation?

Or you already know the meaning of the uninterrupted tone just after booting. Currently, the Windows boot menu is displayed, while the PC is beeping. We would like to install a linux system, but I consider the keyboard faulty. If the post signal confirms my diagnosis, that would be it.

Thank you.

Michael

Michael,

These links may help you:

http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm

http://www.manualslib.com/manual/249...pire-5742.html

http://www.manualslib.com/manual/128....html?page=181

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Can you post the link to the manual?

Search for Acer (Notebook) Travelmate 5742G on:

http://www.acer.com/ac/en/GB/content/drivers

Look under Documents and then download the manual.

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It is the same manual that you can access via the link that beachboy2 has published, above: http://www.manualslib.com/manual/249...pire-5742.html.

Somehow I had not seen the possibility to read the manual online. Unfortunately, I cannot find therein any information on the acoustic signals during POST.
The size of the manual that I get from the Acer-site in PDF-format is announced to be 29.5M. This will take the rest of the day for me. Here is the link:

http://global-download.acer.com/GDFi...CER&SC=EMEA_27

Could someone tell me, what the bios is based on? For the Award-Bios, the post signal points at a problem with RAM. I should be able to recognize the original Bios or just “know” what NVidia had chosen, but have lost that capacity during recent years. Believe it or not, I do not even know what my current BIOS is derived from (and for the time do not even care to know).
And, of course: The Acer laptop is currently not in reach to test.

Nothing in the manual about BIOS beep codes.

If you can enter the BIOS check out the event logs.

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My friend has connected an external keyboard to her laptop and it appears to boot without errors nor post-signal. She will install Linux this way and report back. An empirical approach, maybe not a solution, but possibly a way to a use the machine.

I advised her to check the RAM anyway but do not know, if there is more than one slot available on this old laptop, nor if I have compatible memory for a comparative check...