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Continous System Beep During Win 7 Boot
I just got my wife a new laptop for Xmas. It is a Lenovo Thinkpad Edge 14". Here are the specs:
Core i3 - 370M
4GB Ram
500 GB HD
Intel Wireless ABG
Win 7 Home Premium 64-bit
The first time we started it up, and every time since, the computer does a continuous short/fast beeps once the Starting Windows Screen comes up. It is the black screen that just says "Starting Windows.." The beeping will stop after about 10-15 sec, then the 4 circling dots above the "Starting Windows" screen come up. Then windows will come up normally, and everything seems to work fine.
I have run several tests low level PC-Doctor tests (From a bootable CD) and all of the hardware passes. There are no uninstalled drivers in the Device Manager as well. When I start the computer in Safe mode, the beeping doesn't happen. Also, if I interrupt the windows loading process, by turning it off, then start it up and select "Start Windows Normally" the beeping doesn't happen either.
I also tried formatting the Hard Drive, and installing Win 7 Pro 64-Bit from scratch, and half way through the installation, where it reboots, and starts loading windows, the beeping occurs at that point. I then used the recovery disks, and got the laptop back to factory default settings, and it still happens.
I have never seen a problem like this! Lenovo has a horrible return policy, and they won't let me return it without a 20% restocking fee. They will only offer to repair it, and I rather not send it back to them to look at, so I want to try to fix it myself. For those of you who have read this far...Thank You for your time! I would appreciate any suggestions or ideas on how to troubleshoot fix this. I have a video of the bootup, but it is over 100mb, so I am going to try to shrink it down, and will post a link if I can.