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**J. P. Gilliver (John)[_4_]** · March 28th 19, 01:12 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general

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On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 17:20:26 -0500, Average Person
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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.

Bad memory stick but I would try reseating it first.

Yes, IME beeps with no display is a memory problem. Possibly just a
seating problem. Try unplugging all but one RAM module, then all but the
second one, assuming more than one, then if each works on its own try
combinations.
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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.

Go to control panel/system

Or task manager, performance tab. (That will show slightly less than
actually present, as it deducts some used for some purposes - this 3G
machine shows as 2864 MB, for example.)
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