AMI BIOS - 1 Beep During Booting
Hi,
I have an Asus P4P800 E Deluxe mobo, P4 3.4GHz Northwood, 1GB OCZ PC3200 Platinum rev2, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, 2 x 74GB WD Raptors in RAID0. When I rebooted my computer yesterday, just before the Windows XP logo appeared I got 1 beep. The BIOS is an AMI, it is version 1006. According to the AMI beep codes, 1 beep means "Memory refresh timer error". The computer still boots up ok, there are no errors in Windows XP, no BSODs, it just seems to be running normally, apart from the 1 beep during booting.
I have seen the following recommended, "Try re-seating the memory first, if the error still occurs, replace memory with known good chips".
What is the problem? If there is a problem, why does my computer continue to run "normally" and what should I do to fix it if there is something wrong?
Many thanks for you suggestions.
I have an Asus P4P800 E Deluxe mobo, P4 3.4GHz Northwood, 1GB OCZ PC3200 Platinum rev2, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, 2 x 74GB WD Raptors in RAID0. When I rebooted my computer yesterday, just before the Windows XP logo appeared I got 1 beep. The BIOS is an AMI, it is version 1006. According to the AMI beep codes, 1 beep means "Memory refresh timer error". The computer still boots up ok, there are no errors in Windows XP, no BSODs, it just seems to be running normally, apart from the 1 beep during booting.
I have seen the following recommended, "Try re-seating the memory first, if the error still occurs, replace memory with known good chips".
What is the problem? If there is a problem, why does my computer continue to run "normally" and what should I do to fix it if there is something wrong?
Many thanks for you suggestions.
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Thanks for your quick reply, it only started yesterday, I have had the computer running for over 6 months, but this is the first time I have heard a beep, what do you think would have caused it too start?
I also have just run 10 complete loops of test 5 in memtest86, but no errors at all.
Live, learn, accept, move on. Computers are strange like that.