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Hi All,

Recently got a new pc for my parents, a Lenovo Thinkcentre Edge E73 and have taken the specs from 4gb ram to 16gb and swapped the standard hdd for a 256gb ssd. It is to say the least pretty rapid and should last them plenty of time.

However, it seems to have began beeping twice upon post as soon as you turn it on, it then proceeds to boot into W7 just fine and function as normal. This happens maybe 5/6 times out of every 10 which is a bit annoying. I am looking for some advice on how to stop this happening and get it booting up as normal without any post error beeps. I have been googling for a couple of days now and reading the Lenovo forums and haven't come up with much so far.

Any tips/advice/help much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
 
Quoth said:
Seems Lenovo have their own bios: https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/documents/migr-46018
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Cheers thanks very much. Had a look at that, I have since been back to the computer and restored optimised defaults in the bios and am just testing it now, no double beeps on post so far but its only been started up around 3-5 times so far. Will see how it goes. Whilst in the bios I checked its keeping the date and time correctly which it is, it also recognises fine the full 16gb ram I added and the ssd I added no issues.

Its a weird one for me as normally when you get post beeps something is wrong or the machine just plain won't start or load the OS. Where as here is double bleeps then loads up and functions perfectly normally.
 
Well it seems this did not do the trick, its still double bleeping when it posts, but continues to load to windows and function as normal?

Anyone any thoughts?
 
You have t got a boot order defined with a device higher than the build in harddrive have you? Something like a network boot to which it fails and then happily continues to boot from the harddrive?
 
dejongj said:
You have t got a boot order defined with a device higher than the build in harddrive have you? Something like a network boot to which it fails and then happily continues to boot from the harddrive?
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Hi, I checked this yesterday actually, it had a couple of items before it so switched it around but in the end didn't seem to make too much difference, which I would of thought it should have done.

Bit more progress today, I have flashed the BIOS from within the OS flashing tool, to the latest one from September 2015. Once it flashed the machine rebooted and took me for the first time to the American Megatrends BIOS screen, beeped twice bit this time actually gave me the error as listed below -

Error 0162 : Setup data integrity check failure

I can't seem to find this error listed on the numeric error code list that was posted above. I have been into the bios and saved settings/changes and then rebooted again and the beeps seem to have gone away again (could be intermittent again still) so still testing.

But I will continue googling that error code see if I can find a proper solution as its driving me mad!
 
Anyone have any further thoughts at all? Could do to remove the beeping issue as its driving me mad lol!
 
Dodgy cmos battery either connection or battery itself?
Try unplugging from mains and holding power button for 10 secs to def drain any capacitors replug to mains and see if that gives consistent beepage.
 
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B1ts said:
Dodgy cmos battery either connection or battery itself?
Try unplugging from mains and holding power button for 10 secs to def drain any capacitors replug to mains and see if that gives consistent beepage.
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Tried unplugging and holding in the power button for 60 secs and no difference, beeped twice as soon as turned on. Its a brand new machine so I imagine the CMOS battery should be fine but I believe I have some new spares in the drawer so will try one just incase.
 
donetello said:
Have a read of this
https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo...er-up-but-everything-runs-normal/td-p/1192545
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Cheers donetello, I have had a good read of the article you linked to. Some interesting things suggested in there but pretty much all of them I have tried. Also the error code I get is not listed on there error code list at all which is a shame.

I have reset all the components yesterday. Still does the same thing.

I will also try creating a post on the Lenovo forums so seek advice there too. Its turning into a tricky little issue this one!
 
The Lenovo Hardware Maintenance Manual is what you need to look through https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/docs/um019162 Page 61-63 for the beep/error codes.
2 short beeps - CMOS setting error - Follow the suggestions.

0162 - Setup data integrity check failure - Press F1 to enter the Setup Utility program. Then press F10 to save and exit the Setup Utility program.
 
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PaulF said:
The Lenovo Hardware Maintenance Manual is what you need to look through https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/docs/um019162 Page 61-63 for the beep/error codes.
2 short beeps - CMOS setting error - Follow the suggestions.

0162 - Setup data integrity check failure - Press F1 to enter the Setup Utility program. Then press F10 to save and exit the Setup Utility program.
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Excellent cheers! I followed exactly what it said in the manual there, gave it a few reboots, seemed fine. Came to turn the pc on again later on and back to the same same two short beeps. Also gone into bios, loaded defaults and saved. Same outcome.

I have since been into the bios, after doing a bit more reading and disabled an option called quick boot. This seems to have done the trick "i think"

10x reboots and cold on/off starts so far and just get the standard single beep you would expect when the computer posts. Fingers crossed.
 
If it's REALLY starting OK every time then you could just unplug the internal speaker - it's not like you need to hear the beep for successful startup.
 
ancient_mariner said:
If it's REALLY starting OK every time then you could just unplug the internal speaker - it's not like you need to hear the beep for successful startup.
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Whilst thats true Toni, its a good audible notification that things are ok, hence I knew when it was double beeping there was something not quite right. Thanks thought.
 
Ahh, back to 2 beeps. Very strange this one, I am wondering if it maybe the bios battery not holding the settings changes that I make. Will see if I can source one and swap it and see what happens.

Anyone else any other thoughts. Its a very odd one this.
 
antc said:
Ahh, back to 2 beeps. Very strange this one, I am wondering if it maybe the bios battery not holding the settings changes that I make. Will see if I can source one and swap it and see what happens.

Anyone else any other thoughts. Its a very odd one this.
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Normally, if the CMOS battery is goosed the time and date are wrong.
 
antc said:
Hi Mike, I would totally agree with you, but I'm running out of other things to think it maybe :(
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Yes, I do know the feeling, worth a try and the batteries are cheap in ASDA.
 
ianp5a said:
That's Ironic.
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Lol not really, don't feel the need to repeat myself unless proven necessary, usually reserved for the hard of thinking ime...none of those in this thread afaik ;)
 
antc said:
Tried unplugging and holding in the power button for 60 secs and no difference, beeped twice as soon as turned on. Its a brand new machine so I imagine the CMOS battery should be fine but I believe I have some new spares in the drawer so will try one just incase.
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Hmm see you also said changing quick boot helped for a bit, last time that helped for me turned out it was a timing missmatch in the ram, ram was faulting but that was the early signs eventually failed but was some months later, maybe change ram slots if you have spare?
 
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