Installed new memory; computer won't boot

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dionysus1

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Okay, so my laptop recently died on me so I thought I would take out my old desktop as a temporary replacement. I bought some ram for it and after I installed it the computer wouldn't boot, but would beep at a high pitch rapidly; the monitor did not display anything (it is a working monitor: I'm using it now). I looked it up and apparently this means that there is a memory problem. So I removed the new ram and tried to boot with just the old ram, but again it just beeped and wouldn't boot. The computer was working for a couple of days before I installed the new ram; I just wanted to pick up the speed a little bit.

I'm using a Gigabyte GA-8S650GXM motherboard.
The old ram is Apacer PC2700 256MB DDR.
The new ram is Hynix PC3200U 256MB DDR.

So I'm wondering if the new ram fried my motherboard such that neither of the ram slots work now, or is something else is going on?
 
For a precise answer, you'd have to find out what version of BIOS (award, phoenix, etc...) your motherboard is using. After doing some research on your board, i found that it uses Award BIOS. Now go here and check out what the BIOS beep codes mean.

Off the top of my head though, it could be a VGA issue or very much so a RAM issue.
 
The link that you gave me did not have my beep code, but according to this link: BiosCentral - Award BIOS Beep Codes I have a memory error, since I hear a continuous loop of beeps. It says that the memory is either improperly seated or missing. I can say that the second is undoubtedly false. I've also tried reseating the both memory sticks multiple times and it still does nothing :(
 
Please refer to your motherboard's manual for the supported RAM speeds. This can be in either PC-**** or DDR-*** format. You can usually add faster RAM modules, but some boards have a limit.
 
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