During startup, a desktop PC emits a series of short beeps, followed by a brief pause, and then repeats the pattern. The display remains blank. According to typical BIOS/UEFI beep-code conventions, what does this pattern MOST likely indicate?
The monitor is set to the wrong input source.
The operating system is missing or corrupt on the boot drive.
The BIOS has detected a memory or motherboard fault.
The system passed POST successfully and is booting normally.
A single short beep normally signals that POST completed successfully. When the system instead produces several short beeps that repeat after a pause, the BIOS is reporting a hardware error-commonly involving RAM or the motherboard-before video initialization. The exact fault depends on the vendor's beep chart, but repeating short beeps never indicate a successful POST.
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