PC Turns on and starts beeping madly.

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I had turned my PC off, and left the room for a while. I come back it had turned itself on, beeping constantly (2-3 times a second) and then shuts off after 10-15 seconds of beeping. It repeats this cycle until I hard boot it, where it then turns on normally. Why does it do this?

The beep is the memory check beep noise.
 
Solution
if you havent recently, open your pc and check if the ram is dusty and clean it, it might also be worth removing and reseating the ram if its clean.
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My RAM was quite dusty, didn't know that could make my computer beep though. Thanks for the tip. Once I cleaned it off, it hasn't gone crazy again (yet).