Problem with my HP Desktop.

[Fökai]

To get to the matter at hand, I shipped my fully-functional hard drive from Hawaii to Oregon for my sophomore year at college. When I received it, the first sound I hear when booting up is a large "beep"-ing noise that goes on repeatedly until I shut the tower off. Plugging it into the monitor, it receives "No Signal" from the monitor and keeps beeping.

 

At first glance, it seems that I can fix it myself. The techie I called from the local repair shop said that he narrowed it down to the fact that the memory had accidentally been unplugged, but I did the usual "unplug - plug back in" method to no avail.

 

Does anyone knowledgable in the hardware game know what my problem is? I have a few wires here that are unplugged (P4 and P8), but they have nowhere to be plugged in. I read on a few forums that it might be the RAM (?) crapping out on me, but I'm not sure what to believe. Should I just go in and have it messed with by the techie? How much would that usually cost?

 

Any help would be appreciated.

[Dr. Tom]

Loud beeping codes are usually either system RAM or video card issues.

[Guest DVD Spree]

To get to the matter at hand, I shipped my fully-functional hard drive from Hawaii to Oregon for my sophomore year at college. When I received it, the first sound I hear when booting up is a large "beep"-ing noise that goes on repeatedly until I shut the tower off. Plugging it into the monitor, it receives "No Signal" from the monitor and keeps beeping.

 

At first glance, it seems that I can fix it myself. The techie I called from the local repair shop said that he narrowed it down to the fact that the memory had accidentally been unplugged, but I did the usual "unplug - plug back in" method to no avail.

 

Does anyone knowledgable in the hardware game know what my problem is? I have a few wires here that are unplugged (P4 and P8), but they have nowhere to be plugged in. I read on a few forums that it might be the RAM (?) crapping out on me, but I'm not sure what to believe. Should I just go in and have it messed with by the techie? How much would that usually cost?

 

Any help would be appreciated.

Just for the record, my new PC has been doing this intermittently as well. Maybe, one in twenty boot ups or so. Pain in the ass, but it doesn't seem to have hurt anything.

 

Yet.