[raybbr]

Sounds like the hard drive. How old is it? I've had three hard drives crash on me in the last three months. Or, one or more were malware as my sons tend to play flash games on game sites.

When the power button is turned on the dell circle comes up, the inspiron word shows up and the blue line starts to load- gets 9/10 done and then the non stop beeping starts.(I am not a computer geek at all)

Sounds like it's getting past the POST. The line you refer to, is it a black and white segmented line on the bottom?

[Faith65]

I think it’s 4 years old. The line is blue in the middle- near the bottom of the screen.

[Faith65]

The computer is for work and some web surfing- no gaming or things like that. A lot of docs, work photos and survey mapping on it.