Old mobo BIOS beeps

[Silent Shark]

My dad has this old motherboard (ECS K7VZA) he uses to run a little project in his workshop, which has recently developed a BIOS beep.

It's a PhoenixBIOS chip and it emits one beep followed by a 3 sec pause repeatedly. This doesn't match anything I find on the internet for PhoenixBIOS codes, so I was wondering if anyone knew what it meant?

Thanks.

[Silent Shark]

Bump.

No-one able to help?

It could potentially save £100s if we can fix this thing.

[Clunk]

ram would be my first guess...will it not let you boot into memtest?

[frumpet]

I actually own this motherboard, and after a bit of testing it's definitely your ram which is at fault.

[Silent Shark]

Well, that's good coz I have 2 sticks, so I'll just take one out and see if it boots. RAM is usually what goes wrong, but the beep code just didn't match anything I could find.

I couldn't run memtest 'coz it wouldn't POST, but fingers crossed I can get it going again.

Thanks.