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Once upon a time in the olden days, if certain makes of PC couldn't successfully complete the Power On Self Test and couldn't initialise video output to report the problem, it would beep the fault code through the system speaker.


Most motherboards still do this.


Just not as often, I imagine.


Except, for some makes, it wouldn't get that far but at least that narrowed down the possibilities.




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