Computer beeps at me after upgrading ram

[johnblood]

Hi,

 

I bought a HP Z230 SFF with a Xeon processor and 4 GB of Ram. The ram that came installed was a single stick of PC3-12800U. I bought a stick of 8 GB Ram on eBay. I installed it by itself (because the new stick is ECC and the old stick is not) and when I tried to boot it, it would not boot and kept beeping. The new  (to me) stick is PC3-12800R. I tried the 8 GB stick in another slot, but it still beeped. Any idea why I'm having this issue? Last night, I ordered three sticks of this Ram (https://www.ebay.com/itm/175308315193). Is this ram correct? 

 

Yes, I want ECC support.

[Budget DIY]

Most (older) consumer grade hardware, does not support ECC memory. Can't find much info on this "HP Z230 SFF", but I did notice it's old stuffs, @ best used by a smoll business. I consider it very unlikely that it would support ECC.

 

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You could also look for that annoying speaker, and either unplug it, or cut the wires to this speaker. Then at least it won't beep anymore.

 

[Budget DIY]

Did you read the "ALERT" part on the ad?

 

[johnblood]

2 minutes ago, Budget DIY said:

Most (older) consumer grade hardware, does not support ECC memory. Can't find much info on this "HP Z230 SFF", but I did notice it's old stuffs, @ best used by a smoll business. I consider it very unlikely that it would support ECC.

 

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You could also look for that annoying speaker, and either unplug it, or cut the wires to this speaker. Then at least it won't beep anymore.

 

From the product page on HP's site (https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c03943712):

 

4 DIMM slots, supporting up to 32GB ECC/non-ECC, DDR3 1600 MHz

[Senzelian]

Honestly I'm not sure what the problem is, but it could be that your system does not support registered RAM. 

There are two types of ECC RAM: "Registered" and "Unbuffered with ECC".

The R in 12800R is an indication for it being registered.

 

2 minutes ago, Budget DIY said:

Most (older) consumer grade hardware, does not support ECC memory.

He said he's running a Xeon. All of them (I don't think there's an exception) offer ECC support.

[johnblood]

2 minutes ago, Budget DIY said:

Did you read the "ALERT" part on the ad?

 

The HP Z230 is an enterprise workstation, not a consumer desktop. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Z

[johnblood]

10 minutes ago, Senzelian said:

Honestly I'm not sure what the problem is, but it could be that your system does not support registered RAM. 

There are two types of ECC RAM: "Registered" and "Unbuffered with ECC".

The R in 12800R is an indication for it being registered.

This appears to be the issue. According to this site (https://cloudninjas.com/collections/z230) The Z230 does not support registered ram. Thanks.