- Feb 4, 2017
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Here's the problem:
My MSi motherboard is beeping three times when my PC is turned on. According to this forum post, three beeps means bad RAM so I looked around and decided to give in and buy new RAM to replace the old one. I installed it but now it's still beeping.
And here's some background:
So a while ago, my HDD was corrupted so I backed it up onto an external hard drive and replaced it with a new internal HDD. While I was screwing with that, I came across some really old RAM that my brother had used back in the early thousands and stupidly said, "Hey, I always have space for extra RAM" and stuck it into my computer. So then it had a new HDD, but it started beeping. I hadn't checked if the really old RAM was compatible with my motherboard so I immediately took those out, thinking that would stop the mother board from beeping. But it still beeped even with the original RAM still in there. I tried it out in different spots but beeped every time. So, then I guess I assumed that somehow the really old RAM had corrupted the original RAM and therefore bought new RAM. But nothing's been fixed.
Now, I'm guessing it's just a problem with the motherboard but I wanted to get your all's opinion first before just start buying things wantonly like I have been.
Specs:
AMD FX P6300 CPU Black Edition
MSi 970A-G46 Motherboard
AMD Radeon R7 260x (MSi Afterburner)
1x 8gb Crucial Ballistix Sport RAM (Original)
2x 4gb Corsair Vengeance LP RAM (New)
My MSi motherboard is beeping three times when my PC is turned on. According to this forum post, three beeps means bad RAM so I looked around and decided to give in and buy new RAM to replace the old one. I installed it but now it's still beeping.
And here's some background:
So a while ago, my HDD was corrupted so I backed it up onto an external hard drive and replaced it with a new internal HDD. While I was screwing with that, I came across some really old RAM that my brother had used back in the early thousands and stupidly said, "Hey, I always have space for extra RAM" and stuck it into my computer. So then it had a new HDD, but it started beeping. I hadn't checked if the really old RAM was compatible with my motherboard so I immediately took those out, thinking that would stop the mother board from beeping. But it still beeped even with the original RAM still in there. I tried it out in different spots but beeped every time. So, then I guess I assumed that somehow the really old RAM had corrupted the original RAM and therefore bought new RAM. But nothing's been fixed.
Now, I'm guessing it's just a problem with the motherboard but I wanted to get your all's opinion first before just start buying things wantonly like I have been.
Specs:
AMD FX P6300 CPU Black Edition
MSi 970A-G46 Motherboard
AMD Radeon R7 260x (MSi Afterburner)
1x 8gb Crucial Ballistix Sport RAM (Original)
2x 4gb Corsair Vengeance LP RAM (New)
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