Beep code 1-1-1-1 from Presario V5094EA
My Presario V5000 has given up booting gradually. Initially I had the occational power-on beep-code indicating RAM problems. The problem became gradually worse and finally the notebook did not boot.
After cleaning memory contacts and replacing RAM modules the behaviour has changed. Without any RAM modules I get beep codes 1-3-3-1, which is what I expected. With any RAM memory module installed (including the ones that played up in the first place) the notebook now beeps 1-1-1-1.
I have seen that with some HP BIOS this means "flashing failed", but what about this Presario?
Where do I go from here?
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Pull the cmos battery out for a few hours, put it back in, see if you get a post screen, if you do enter the bios and set date and time.
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