Alienware x51 shutting down, continous 2 beeps.

[SirOlaf]

Hi All, I have an Alienware x51 (i5 processor, Nvidea 660GPU). Yesterday the computer randomly shut down whilst playing Fallout 4. It restarted itself after a few seconds, and had a continous beep coming from inside. Although it started up, it would not boot. I shut it down, and after repeating this process of turning on and not booting i left it for a bit. When I came back, I laid it on its side, and it ran fine. Today I am having the same issue, but now it is freezing when I try and run games, then I have to shut it down. When I turn it on, it somtimes boots up fine other times it does the no boot and beep thing. I read that two beeps mean RAM is not installed, so I opened it up and took it out, and put it back in. No change. Can anyone help with this? Thanks in advance.

 

[Andrei-Florin Gogan]

Run the memory diagnostic tool provided by Windows and let's see if that brings you any details.

 

[SirOlaf]

At this point, I cannot get the computer to boot no matter what. It keeps giving 2 beeps and a pause. Nothing else.

 

[Andrei-Florin Gogan]

Well like you said. Acording to the motherboard, 2 beeps mean a memory issue. Try installing the RAM into a different PC or try putting different RAM in your computer.

 

[SirOlaf]

After some testing, it seems the mother board slots are done. Thanks for your help guys!

 

[Andrei-Florin Gogan]

All 4 slots are gone ??

 

[SirOlaf]

There are only 2 slots on this board, but yes. I tried 2 sets of other RAM and I still get these 2 beeps. It's very odd to me that this worked for a few hours then went back to not booting.

 

[Andrei-Florin Gogan]

OK pal, sorry it happened and glad you took care of it and found out.

 

[SirOlaf]

OK pal, sorry it happened and glad you took care of it and found out.

Thanks for all your help!

 

[Jericho27606]

This is what happened to me but I he vent tried other ram yet. Mine just started beeping out of nowhere. I don't even have the money to buy a new motherboard :/