Weird laptop event

[DREDIOCK]

Sons home from college. as is his laptop

Laptop sitting there and suddenly emits a long un-ending beep and the computer is locked up. no mouse responce from either the mouse or the touchpad. Pressing reset does  nothing. pressing and holding the power button does nothing.

It just sits there loudly going
BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EP

So I unplug it. forgetting it has a battery so this obviously does nothing.

Eventually I figure out how to remove the battery and that shuts it off.

Place battery back in. Reboot the laptop and it boots normally and so far after an hour runs fine and it hasnt repeated.


Any Ideas?

Laptop is a HP Pavillion Media Center DV8225 NR

[SkyChimp03]

Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Sons home from college. as is his laptop

Laptop sitting there and suddenly emits a long un-ending beep and the computer is locked up. no mouse responce from either the mouse or the touchpad. Pressing reset does  nothing. pressing and holding the power button does nothing.

It just sits there loudly going
BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EP

So I unplug it. forgetting it has a battery so this obviously does nothing.

Eventually I figure out how to remove the battery and that shuts it off.

Place battery back in. Reboot the laptop and it boots normally and so far after an hour runs fine and it hasnt repeated.


Any Ideas?

Laptop is a HP Pavillion Media Center DV8225 NR

Any idea how long it was on before it started to beep? Something could of gotten too hot or maybe battery was low? Never had a laptop <-wouldn't know thats just my 2cents. Sounds like it just locked up or overheated..

[Balsy]

Originally posted by DREDIOCK
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Any Ideas?

Laptop is a HP Pavillion Media Center DV8225 NR [/B]

Yes.. I have an idea......ITS AN HP!!!

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by Balsy
Yes.. I have an idea......ITS AN HP!!!

Now thats about as helpful as Teets on a bull LOL

Care to buy him a different one?
Be my guest

In the meantime.

Its been running now nonstop since I first posted the original message and so far it hasnt repeated itself.

Other then this one incident.
The machine has performed flawlessly in 6 months of almost non stop use

[SkyChimp03]

Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Now thats about as helpful as Teets on a bull LOL

Care to buy him a different one?
Be my guest

In the meantime.

Its been running now nonstop since I first posted the original message and so far it hasnt repeated itself.

Other then this one incident.
The machine has performed flawlessly in 6 months of almost non stop use

Could of been a memory error but if thats the case a blue screen should of poped up. Never know though:D

[Helrazr1]

Had this happen on my work laptop, about 3 times, (an HP).  Sent the unit to HP, and it turned out that the stupid thing had a dead cell in the battery, so once the battery was replaced, problem solved.

[DREDIOCK]

Thanks.

Been running nonstop now since the event was first posted.
Still no problems.

Im thinking maybe it was just some sort of weird glitch or hangup.

Dunno. maybe two people logged on at the same time in his AIM software and the computer got confused as to which buddy sound to play or something.


::shrug::
Makes as much sense at this point as anything else