Troubleshooting Memory Failures using Award BIOS Beep Codes

Title : Troubleshooting Memory Failures using Award BIOS Beep Codes

Award 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

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