dell mobo

[TITAN24]

ive got a question for a friend of mine for any one familiar with dells...

My friends comp died the other day and when he starts it now all he gets its 3 beeps... not long beeps or short beeps. And it only does it once. Just...

Beep, beep, beep

And thats it. Anyone know what this means. Hes looked on dells website and it doesnt have anything that matches. And hes to lazy to look at the mobo so does anyone know if dell only uses one kinda mobo?

Any feed back would be great thanks.

 

[Rucku§]

One beep = a refresh error, two beeps = a parity error, and three beeps = base 64k memory error. For all three error codes:

* Try taking out your RAM sticks and reseating them.
* If that does not fix the problem and you have more than one bank of RAM, take out the first bank of RAM and move the second bank of RAM to the first bank's slot (leave the first bank of RAM out and then power up your PC to test it) -you may have a bad SIMM or DIMM. If the RAM you had in bank two works fine in bank one's slot, then the RAM that was in bank one is bad.
* If both solutions fail, replace your motherboard.