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I'm having a long BIOS load screen there is a series of single beeps. When it starts to boot it has an initial beep, pause, beep, I believe three beeps but could be four total following that pattern. I have Gigabyte B74M-D3H and a i5-3470 I'm not sure on the RAM at the moment; I know there are 2x4 8gb but I will check tomorrow. My basic thought is that the ram is either faulty or that the slot has failed. I am hoping to get some thoughts on this I've check this site for bios codes to help me come up with this. Also my plan is to check if the RAM is seated properly, if it is I'm planing on moving it to the other two slots and booting to see if i get the same bios start up problem. Any suggestions or ideas to help me get on the right path would be much appreciated. Thanks!
 
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1 long followed by 3 short beeps is a sign of memory failure in AMI, Phoenix, Award, dell branded BIOS. among other brands too.

try booting with only 1 stick. if problem persists, swap the stick but use the same ram slot. is problem still persists, try the stick in a different slot

HOWEVER, if you are using award BIOS and you get 1 long followed by just 2 short beeps, that a sign that the GPU has failed.

good luck.
 
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I'm not trying to argue with you here i wanna start by saying, i just didn't say this in my post originally. I have EVGA GTX 780 ACX and I've been running all my games on ultra and high setting i'm getting full display and have a functional rig. i could be wrong about the GPU failure but i feel like i wouldn't be capable of running my games on such high settings. im also running a HX750 if that has any element to equation. thanks for the reply by the way.
 
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then it is probably the RAM. doesn't seem like a complete failure but your system doesn't like something. try just reseating the RAM to start.
 
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Cool man, thanks for the confirmation, ill check it out in the morning and i will respond with what i come up with. I could agree my system is irritated hahaha






 
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Well i shut down and pulled both sticks out and put them back in, and i got the same results.
At this point should i try putting them in the other two slots and start up?
My initial thought was to buy new RAM but i figure putting it in the other two slots would tell me if one could be faulty and from there launch with just one and then to try the other one if the problem is still there. Thoughts?



this is the website ive been using to come up with the bios code http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm
 
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SurgioGomez

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I've come up with this as my final answer to the beep code. Basic memory 64k address check error. I also ran a windows memory diagnostics n it didn't detect any problems. These are generic RAM. Ideas?
 
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