DRAM error

reed311 · 07-25-2004, 02:50 PM

Yesterday I booted my computer, only to be greeted with a blank screen and a series of continuous beeps. After looking in my manual it said that something may have come loose, so I took out my RAM and reseated it as well as my video card. The beeping continued.

Looking further into the manual into the beep codes, I found that I had a DRAM error. I have 2 memory sticks in dual-channel, so I took each stick and tried both of them in each socket individually.... more beeping, no matter what the configuration.

I have had the computer for several months and have never encountered this error. If you have any possible answers please tell me. I can't even access the BIOS, all I see is a blank screen and beeps.

Devil4915 · 07-25-2004, 02:56 PM

did you try resetting the bios?, i know i got a dram error the other day cause i set the memory timings wrong by accident

reed311 · 07-25-2004, 02:58 PM

How would i reset the BIOS?

Blind_Arrow · 07-25-2004, 03:02 PM

bring out your cell battery for 2-3 minutes

and then re-install

reed311 · 07-25-2004, 03:45 PM

first, where is the cell battery? and how would i take it out? second, would i need to reinstall windows?

reed311 · 07-25-2004, 10:01 PM

thanks for the tip, but where is the cell battery??? and will resetting the battery make me lose my OS??? and one final question, will this fix my problem?

killians45 · 07-25-2004, 10:06 PM

we dont know yet if it will solve the problem. but, as suggested above I would clear NVRAM by jumper and not battery. You set the jumper to the clear/recovery setting, boot, it'll say something like CMOS cleared by jumper... shut down, and put the jumpers back on the defualt/normal pin settings and reboot and save bios changes.