Weird beeping nosie

I recently installed a stick of ram onto my laptop, and now sometimes when I boot vista into completion and when I'm on the desktop, my laptop makes weird beeping noises, at random intervals.

Sometimes this happens after I come out of sleep mode as well, but it always seems to go away after 5 or so beeps?

Does anyone know how I might be able to fix this? Thank you!

 

Did you try to re-insert the stick, believe the beep is a hardware issue?
If you remove the stick do you still have problems?

 

I'll give it a try, but the beep is really hard to reproduce. I went a week without hearing it, but than all of a sudden it came back, only to disappear after a couple of beeps.

If I installed the stick incorrectly, would windows still show that I have 4 gigs of ram?

Thanks for your reply.

 

Just a guess but this all started after the ram install, correct, just think it may be something to do with that. My only suggestion would be to remove that stick and run it to see if the beep goes away.

If you are not getting any bsod at the moment you could also leave it alone, but I somehow believe it will not go away.

Good Luck

 

Hey, I've taken out the ram and put it back in and I've not been able to reproduce the error until today, while both sticks of ram were in. So now I'm not sure if the beeping noise would occurred anyways with only one stick of ram in, or if its a whole other issue.

I've run multiple memory tests and they all indicate that the ram is working properly. The error is so hard to reproduce and seems to be random.

Thank you for your reply, any other suggestions will be greatly appreciated. I would call tech support from xotic pc, but I think they'll prb just tell me its a problem with my ram and say it's not supported by my warranty.

 

Was there a pattern to the beeps, like a series of long and short beeps? More likely than not what you were getting were BIOS beep codes intended to identify a particular problem that came up in POST when the BIOS ran through the system's hardware, and most likely that problem relates to your new memory. You could also run a diagnostic on it, like memtest86 to see if it picks up on anything.

 

Thank you for your reply. I made a point to try to identify a pattern for the beeps, but I as far as I could tell, it did not exit. There were only short beeps at random intervals, sometimes lasting a couple of minutes in between them.

I've been trying to reproduce to problem again, but have been unsuccessful all night. Since BSOD does not come up, can I assume this issue will not cause any permanent damage to my system? If so, I think I can ignore the beeps.

I'll give that program a try as well.

After one pass, I received the following message: Pass complete, no errors, past Esc to exit. This is the 3rd memory test program I've tried, that reported no errors.

 

Is anything showing up in your event logs? If whatever caused the beeping occurred after the event logger was started, something should have been logged to it.

 

Like Shyster already mentioned, if there is a pattern in the beeps, this can help pinpoint the problem.
Check yourself/ask Xotic what kind of BIOS you have (from which manufacturer) and, if applicable, check these pages for BIOS beep codes and their meaning; link and link.
Cheers.

 

The error codes only occur during POST, correct?

The beeping I'm getting occurs when I'm already in windows, typing in word, browsing in firefox, playing a game, it all seems pretty random.

I'll give xotic pc a shot, though.

@shyster1

I'll be sure to check event log next time, if I can reproduce the error. I just go into event viewer to check, and poke around to see if I find any error codes, correct?

Thanks again for the help everyone.