Asus Beep Codes

[mxer394]

Every once in a while, on booting, my computer will have a 3 second beep, 5 seconds of silence, 3 second beep, etc. The motherboard is an Asus P5N32-E SLI. The manual has no beep code guide, but I found through a bit of googling that this typically means bad memory (although I could be wrong, if you can find out whether I was right, that would be great).

So I need to test my RAM. I found out that Vista already has a Memory Diagnostics Tool installed. Upon booting, it tests the memory. Is this decent enough to test for RAM errors? If not, can someone reccomend a better one? Cheap is good, free is much better.

[mjc]

Memtest is free and runs outside of Windows.

http://www.memtest.org/

Grab the CD ISO and create a bootable CD from that and set the optical drive to the first boot device and test away...

[mxer394]

Memtest is free and runs outside of Windows.

http://www.memtest.org/

Grab the CD ISO and create a bootable CD from that and set the optical drive to the first boot device and test away...

I did this once, and for some reason it would ask me to press any key to boot from the CD drive, and I pressed a key, and it just went straight to windows.

But I'll try again.

[mxer394]

Just ran windows memory diagnostic, didn't say anything about the RAM.

So I'll run Memtest, but this is getting really weird. Can anyone help me out?

[mjc]

Without knowing the results of Memtest...there isn't much to be done, unless you have RAM to swap out with.