Computer Beeping at start up ?

[jutnm]

I took my parts out from my PC to dust and clean, but when i reassembled everything it gives me 7 short beeps.Nothing shows up on my monitor as well. I looked online but didnt really find anything but it says that the beeps could mean bad memory ?

some help would be great !

 

[pies]

Try testing the memory if you have some spare stuff lying around.
Or download memtest burn it to a cd/dvd and boot from it and run a test that way.

 

[jutnm]

i was planning on going to frys and buyin 512 mb of pc6400 but i will do the dld mem test

 

[StrangleHold]

7 Beeps

Seven beeps indicates a general exception error. This AMI beep code could be caused by an expansion card problem, a motherboard hardware issue, or a damaged CPU. Replacing the faulty hardware usually fixes the cause of this beep code.

MSI info
http://us.msi.com/support/sup_tshoot.asp

 

[Atrosity]

Yeah, your computer is not posting.

First thing I would do is check to see if everything was put back properly, check everything you touched.

The same error saying you have a bad CPU goes for a bad Mother Board, you really don't know unless you do trial and error.

Make sure everything is connected and try putting in only 1 memory stick to see if that helps as well. If one stick is bad then your computer will not boot.

 

[jutnm]

thanks guys, im going to try my expansions slots, if not then could be a bad cpu ? damn

ok so to be more clear on this its actually

first - 3 really super quick beeps
then- 6 slow beeps after the 3 quick beeps

 

[1337dingo]

oh i think that might be memory .. make sure your ram is in properly we had that at work and one of the sticks of ram was loose