Will it continue to beep?

[Mike1050]

so a few months ago my computer started to beep on start up, i looked up whats wrong and it said my ram, so i opened my case and switched my 8GB of RAM to the other side it can go in and it worked, im wondering if i buy 16GB of RAM (2x 8GB sticks ) will me placing one of the 8GB ram into the slot that made my computer beep , continue to beep or will it not beep due to Newer Ram?

 

[DRagor]

Depends. If that ram slot has failed, it will not work no matter what kind of ram you'll put in there.

 

[Mike1050]

Depends. If that ram slot has failed, it will not work no matter what kind of ram you'll put in there.

what would happend if it has failed? would i need a new motherboard

 

[DRagor]

Ram slot failure is often caused by bent CPU pins (or CPU socket pins). But it could be also mechanical or electrical motherboard failure.
Do you need new motherboard - depends how many slots are still working and how many you need. If it had 4 slots and only one fails, you can in most cases use remaining 3 and be fine. But if you have mobo with just 2 slots, then having only one slots that works severely limits amount of ram you can use.