Not sure who may be helped by this.... but...I took this machine into the repair shop to ask him if they wanted to use it for old parts. They checked it out and said it works fine! I said no I turned it on and it just goes beep and then beep and then beep. He said do you have it plugged into a power cord? I said yes. He said that's the problem. I plugged it into the wall and he was right. So if anyone else has a few problems that you might think it's the computer on your machine, try plugging it into the wall.