i would like to thank everyone who helped me with this problem and have discovered that it was my hard drive so i bought a new one started to reinstall windows which tells me it will reboot a lot of times so it shuts down and does not restart so i thought battery gone.
go to put in power cord and it starts beeping and just the power cord as i tried it by itself.
any ideas what is causing this.
This is the standard error codes provided by BIOS:
No Beeps: No Power, Loose Card, or Short.
1 Short Beep: Normal POST, computer is ok.
2 Short Beep: POST error, review screen for error code.
Continuous Beep: No Power, Loose Card, or Short.
Repeating Short Beep: No Power, Loose Card, or Short.
One Long and one Short Beep: Motherboard issue.
One Long and Two Short Beeps: Video (Mono/CGA Display Circuitry) issue.
One Long and Three Short Beeps: Video (EGA) Display Circuitry.
Three Long Beeps: Keyboard / Keyboard card error.
One Beep, Blank or Incorrect Display: Video Display Circuitry.