What does BIOS beep sound mean?

hardware debugging

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AWARD BIOS 1

Beeps Meaning
short beep System normal
2 short beep CMOS Error
1 long beep and 1 short beep Memory error
1 long beep and 2 short beep Graphic card error
1 long beep and 3 short beep AGP error
1 long beep and 9 short beep Memory Error
Continuous short beep Power supply unit failed
Continuous long beep Memory not correctly installed

AMI BIOS

Beeps Meaning
1 short beep Memory Error
2 short beep Memory parity check error.
3 short beep basic memory 64K address check error
4 short beep Real Time Clock malfunction
5 short beep CPU error
6 short beep Keyboard error
7 short beep CPU interruption error
8 short beep Graphic card error
9 short beep Memory error
10 short beep CMOS error
11 short beep CPU cache memory malfunction