Bill in Co wrote:
Average Person wrote:
I have an old IBM T43 laptop which dont have a harddrive in it. When I
turn it on, I get error beeps and nothing else.

Of course without a hard drive, I only expected to see the setup screen.
(BIOS)

I am getting this: 1 3 3 1 (These are the beeps)
one beep, three beeps, three beeps, one beep.

What does this mean?
I know these beeps are like morse code and mean something.

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One other thing, (Not for the same computer)

Is there something built into XP Pro SP3 that shows how much RAM is in a
computer? I went to Control Panel - System - Device Manager. It shows
everything except the RAM. I recall back in the DOS days, there was a
command that could be typed to determine memory, but I am not sure if
that works with modern OSs, nor can I remember the command.

Right click on the My Computer icon Google is our friend.



This one will give the declaration on each stick.
You can compare the total of all declarations, to
the amount the system is actually using. In the last
tab over, there should be an option to save the output
in a text file. For example, I set MAXMEM on Windows 10
recently, to pin off an amount of memory - Windows 10
boots faster if you have "small RAM". So CPUZ would always
show the physical total, whereas Windows can turn some of it
off (MAXMEM), and not use all of it.

https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html

SPD tables can be decoded with one of several JEDEC documents,
if you're curious about how that part works.

Paul