Beeping sounds from my Motherboard

[hootch]

I keep getting long beeping sounds that just repeat. I looked at the beep codes for my motherboard(MSI model# 865GM2-LS with phoenix bios) and none really fit the codes given. I have 2x516 MB kingston ram and I tried reseating them, I rearranged them, I took them out, I just tried one of them, but all still give me the same beeping sound. I removed my video card and it still did it. I'm just trying to figure out the problem without replacing my motherboard. Any suggestions? Thanks.

 

[MTDEW]

This is a BASIC beep chart.

No Beeps - Short, No power, Bad CPU/MB, Loose Peripherals
One Beep - Everything is normal and Computer POSTed fine
Two Beeps - POST/CMOS Error
One Long Beep, One Short Beep - Motherboard Problem
One Long Beep, Two Short Beeps - Video Problem
One Long Beep, Three Short Beeps - Video Problem
Three Long Beeps - Keyboard Error
Repeated Long Beeps - Memory Error
Continuous Hi-Lo Beeps (siren)- CPU Overheating

 

[BadThad]

Try different modules and then a different CPU in the board.

 

[hootch]

I guess I'll try getting new memory. It says that it has a lifetime warranty on it, could I just ship them back to Kingston and get them replaced by them? Or was it my fault that the memory went bad?

 

[MTDEW]

Doubt its your fault, you'd have to very deliberate to kill two sticks at the same time.

Did you reset the bios BEFORE this happened to solve another problem?
Was this mobo/ram combo working before together?


It could be your bios's settings for the ram dont match when bios is cleared to its default state.
In that case, booting with another stick of ram and setting the bios's ram settings to match you ram settings would solve the problem.

Or if the ram/mobo has never worked together, it could just be an incompatability.

Ive had mobo/ ram combos before that if i reset the bios i had to use different ram to get the pc to post, then after setting the ram's settings manually in the bios, it would work with the other ram.

 

[hootch]

The ram and mobo combo have beeing working for the past 2 years, but I just installed a sata hdd and I wanted to make that the boot drive so when I was coping the old boot drive (ide) to the sata it was taking forever. I quit the transferring of drives then decided to make the sata drive the only drive, after numerous hours it finally worked, but it was loud as hell and some of my programs, such as ms office and windows media player icons wouldn't show but I still could use them. So I decided to put the old ide drive in and try to make that the main boot and make the sata one the back up but when I tried to do that my computer wouldn't boot and the mobo just kept on beeping as mentioned before. So now I'm not sure what to do.

 

[hootch]

I just put my ram into another computer and it worked. So I'm assuming that it might be my mobo.