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This evening I had an interesting turn of events. After a reboot my computer would not restart. I couldn't even access my BIOS for suspicious problems. All I got from my computer was a continuous beeping from the internal speaker connected to my motherboard.

I first tried clearing the RTC Ram manually on my board which produced no results. I then next began pulling ram from the board one stick at a time restarting between pulls. I narrowed it down to the DDR DIMM_A1 slot. After pulling that memory stick I could boot up into Windows fine without any problems.

With this its my understanding that its either my boards one memory slot or my memory stick died. I'll try moving memory around later to narrow it down even more but I wanted a second opinion. I'm running a Asus P5N32-E SLI board with 4 gigs of Crucial Ballistix DDR2 PC2-6400 memory. (A gig each stick) I'm running XP Pro and I know it doesn't see 4 gigs of memory, only 3 gigs, but this hasn't ever been a problem until now.

It sounds like you are on the right track. It sounds like it is either the memory slot on the motherboard or the individual memory stick. Try the stick that was in the DDR DIMM_A1 slot in another slot and see if it still works and then you'll know if it was the memory or the slot.

I finally got around to switching around my ram in the computer. Oddly enough it works now. I'm not entirely sure why that is but the BIOS reads I'm running 4 gigs of ram. Computer boots without any problems, odd eh?

Definitely odd, however I'm glad you've got the problem resolved.

Let us know if you need anything else.