Possible RAM or BIOS issue

[ACupOfTea]

(specs at the bottom)

 

Dear all!

 

I have an issue with my desktop pc and I really need your help. I started my computer yesterday and it starting beeping (3 beeps), in the AMI BIOS this corresponds to the Base 64 K RAM failure code. At this point I decided to run a diagnostic, but couldn't open the BIOS, because the screen would remain black. (Monitor isn't recieving signal, peripherals light up, it was fine until now) Just loading into windows works fine and task manager shows 16GB of available memory, but the beep code and the BIOS issue persists. If anyone has any ideas it would help me a tonne. (I will be posting updates as I find out more)

 

Thank you in advance!

 

Update one: 1 long beep, then 2 short ones. Depending on where I look it either doesn't exist, is a memory issue, or graphics card issue. Rainbow Six Siege ran fine.

 

Specs:
Motherboard: MSI H170 Gaming M3 (MS-7978)

CPU: Intel Core i5-6400 2.7GHz, 2712Mhz

Memory: 2x HyperX Fury 8Gb

GPU: MSI Geforce GTX1060 6Gb (Afterburner edition)

OS: Windows 10 Pro (v: 10.0.19045)

BIOS Mode: UEFI

(I added some likely unneeded information, but if there is anything important I left out, please let me know.)

[Tetras]

maybe the battery dying?

[ACupOfTea]

I actually haven't thought of that. I'll check in a sec.

 

Also update one: 1 long beep, then 2 short ones. Depending on where I look it either doesn't exist, is a memory issue, or graphics card issue. Rainbow Six Siege ran fine.

[ACupOfTea]

2 hours ago, Tetras said:

maybe the battery dying?

That solved it, thank you so much!

[OddOod]