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I have 2 sticks of PC3200 DDR Ram installed on my board and I'm
getting one 2 second beep which repeats. According to the handbook
this is a refresh failure.

I have tried both memory sticks in all slots to try and pin a bad one
down, but still the same error. Is it likely that both sticks of RAM
are bad?

Is the only solution to replace the RAM?

Regards,

Dan

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.gigabyte (More info?)

>I have 2 sticks of PC3200 DDR Ram installed on my board and I'm
> getting one 2 second beep which repeats. According to the handbook
> this is a refresh failure.
>
> I have tried both memory sticks in all slots to try and pin a bad one
> down, but still the same error. Is it likely that both sticks of RAM
> are bad?
>
> Is the only solution to replace the RAM?
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan

Had the same problem with my K8NSNXP-939 when I first built it, continual
single beep = memory problem.
First thing I'd do would be to try each stick of ram seperately to see if
they do actually work. Blow out the ram connectors before you reseat it and
make sure they click down properly.
Can you get as far as the BIOS screen to check what the ram is being
detected as?

Lord Deckard.

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.gigabyte (More info?)

Lord Deckard NOSPAM DONTSPAMME wrote:
> Had the same problem with my K8NSNXP-939 when I first built it,
continual
> single beep = memory problem.
> First thing I'd do would be to try each stick of ram seperately to
see if
> they do actually work. Blow out the ram connectors before you reseat
it and
> make sure they click down properly.
> Can you get as far as the BIOS screen to check what the ram is being
> detected as?

The beep isn't continual though, it's a 2 second beep that repeats.
I've tried each stick separately, but neither will work in any slot. I
find it very difficult to believe that both sticks have suddenly gone
bad.

If I take the memory out, I get one 4 second beep that repeats. The
beep codes are confusing, but if it's a single beep then it's a refresh
failure which is described thus on the AMIBIOS website:

"1 short: DRAM refresh failure
The circuitry used to refresh the DRAM has failed."

Which makes me think it's a mobo fault, not RAM.

Thanks for the input.

Dan