Troubleshooting Memory Failures using Award BIOS Beep Codes
February 19, 2008 6:42 pm Old GuidesAward is the another popular BIOS developer and they use the fewest beep codes by far.
Procedures - The normal procedure is to power up the PC system, watch for error message on the monitor screen and listen to the PC beep tone. A single beep during boot-up process is normal and does not indicate a failure if the system continues to boot-up.
1 Long Beep tone - Memory Problem
1 Long Beep and 2 Short Beeps - DRAM Parity failure
1 Long Beep and 3 Short Beeps - Video error
Continous Beep tone - Memory or Video memory failures
