Problem description: This whole issue started tonight when I was testing some RAM for my fiance's brother. His computer won't boot, so I tested his two sticks of RAM individually to see if they were the problem. The first stick worked just fine, booted into Windows with no problem and no error code came from the speaker. When I tried the second stick, I got a long continuous error beep, so I turned the computer off and figured that stick was bad.

Now, when I replaced his RAM with my RAM, four 1 gig sticks, I get the long continuous beep. I've tried different sticks in different slots and I always get the beep. Sometimes the beep starts right after turning the PC on and sometimes it waits until half way through booting into Windows. I've let it boot in to Windows completely with no apparent issue other than the beep on 1 stick.

Attempted fixes: I've tried putting different sticks in different slots, but I always get the beep now. I'm currently running memtest on one of my old sticks and it's 71% done with no problems.

Recent changes: No recent changes. My system was overclocked, but once the beeping started I set the BIOS back to normal settings.

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Operating system: Windows 7

System specs: Home built PC. GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 LGA 775 Intel P965 motherboard, Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz LGA 775 65W processor, 2 G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400), EVGA 320-P2-N811-AR GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB, ENERMAX Noisetaker II EG495P-VE 485W ATX12V power supply.[b]

2/5/2010 9:59:51 PM

You have a fan alarm on. I have the next gen of that mobo (ep-ds4) and they have fan alarms on them.

Im guessing you either turned on one in bios, or knocked a fan header off the mobo so its not getting a signal saying the fan is on/running. You can turn all of them off in BIOS. They are kinda useful if you are overclocking.

On memtest, you say 71 %, you know its only effective if you let it run about 5-6 runs, eg overnight. 1 test normally wont do it unless the memory is wayyy shot.

2/6/2010 11:13:39 AM

Yeah, it wasn't a fan alarm as far as I know. I cleared the CMOS and didn't have any more problems.

I know you need to run memtest all the way through on all the sticks, but I wasn't going to wait that long because I didn't think there was anything actually wrong with my memory.

2/6/2010 10:05:23 PM