If your motherboard is fried, will you get beep codes?

Question

I thought i fried my motherboard, but then when i plugged it in today, to check if i had everything plugged in right, it spun up the drives, and then i got a beep code.... 1-3-3-1.. autosize DRAM i looked it up... and i said that my memory was mis matched... i checked it, and it was so i pulled the non-OEM stick and plugged it back in. It started to boot as soon as i plugged it in and there was no beep codes, and nothing on the monitor.

Components:
Cognac 10993 Motherboard
Voodoo 2 Video accelerator [SLI]
OEM Seagate 8 GB HDD
OEM FD Drive
Generic 52X CD drive
Maxtor 32 GB Harddrive [as slave, same channel as CD drive]
Intel Celeron processor 466Mhz [socket 370]
umm...if you want to know anything else, let me know

Help please. I really like this PC and if it isn't dead, i don't want to have to buy a new motherboard

Answer 1

Try different memory in the laptop. Sounds like you may have damaged it. A bad memory chip can prevent the laptop form booting. Since you have multiple memory slots, try moving the memory to the other slot.

Answer 2

How many memory modules do have in total?
The beep code would suggest a faulty something! Probably a RAM stick as indicated from the error message.
Try them one-by-one instead of reseating them all & trying again.

Answer 3

so pull the oem stick and put the after market ram back in and see what it does then.
mis-matched ram is talking about the dimm itself. dimm stands for dual inline memory module. if one of those lines gets fubared, the memory on the one dimm is mis-matched.
see?

anyway, try the dimm, the aftermarket one, by itself in your computer.

Answer 4

It sounds like it is either motherboard related or power related. Check for a burning smell, see if you can examine the board yourself.

Answer 5

you gotta be kidding me. how do you think is it gonna work??ah...everything one way or another is connected to your mobo ... it is rediculous .