Two long beeps, then boots just fine. Help?

Apollo11

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Hi there.

I have just installed new RAM, and at first I thought that was normal because maybe it was doing some configuration or something but it actually happens every time I start my pc.

My motherboard does that "Post" thing but instead of booting, it gives two long beeps, then it does the "Post" thing again and boots my computer up. After it boots I get a message saying something like "the system has experience boot failures because of overclocking". So I can just press enter, and it goes into Windows just fine. My ram is loaded, everything works as it should be. So my question is, why the beeps? How do I stop it doing that?

My motherboard is:
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3628#ov

The new Ram is:
2x http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/bls8g3d1609ds1s00

I tried inserting the old ram as a test, and there are no beeps. With the new 16gb ram, there are two long beeps, but system works fine afterwards. What is the problem?

Thanks.
 
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those look perfect, i think you should be fine!

PajamaXLlama

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that's strange, for your motherboard, 2 long beeps isn't even a code within your system. Are you sure its not 2 short beeps or 1 short and 1 long

also, are you mixing two different brands of ram?
 

Apollo11

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Nope, they are both the same ram, the crucial ram linked above. And yea its 2 long beeps :(

I think I managed to fix it. I went into bios, and I set the ram settings all in auto. I noticed that it changed a lot of settings to some default spd settings I guess it pulled from ram (much more settings than just the 9-9-9-24). In the end, the auto settings still set my ram to 1600mhz and 9-9-9-30 and there are no more beeps and boots just fine, so I guess all ok? Thing is, in bios it says 9-9-9-30, but in cpu-z, it says 9-9-9-24 as detected. Does it matter?

 

PajamaXLlama

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check the temperature once in a while to make sure it doesn't overheat, other than that it should be fine! Just check windows and make sure it says that windows detects all of the memory (just so you know you're utilizing all of it)