Beep issue, beyond hope? Pavilion slimline s3888d

Hello. I have a HP Pavilion slimline s3888d desktop PC. Product info When i turned it on last week, it was perfectly fine.
However, it now is unable to start up. and it has a funny beep sequence i never seen before.
beeeeep beebeep. (the second and third beep is very suspicious. Not very sure what it is.)
(awkward 10+ second pause) beeeeep beeeeep. beeeeep beeeeep and keeps going like this.
The long beeps are in sets of 2.
It runs on windows Vista 32 bit, and i make it a point to always update software to the latest.
It has history of blue screens and even code purple. This time its really dead.
Can someone help?

Hi,
Please listen to those beeps again and check this list (there are links for other models):
http://www.dalepc.com/info/bios_bc.pdf
Hope you can find out the symptom and fix it.
Good luck.
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