Beep On Start-up

[lizzyluck]

Hello everyone,

I'm having a little problem - more often than not, when I turn on my macbook pro I'm getting a single beep followed by nothing. It started happening all of a sudden a few days ago.

Following the beep, I hold down the power button to turn it off again and start it up and then usually get nothing a couple of times - eventually after 2/3 goes at turning it on and off, it'll eventually start up as usual.

I've read that 1 beep signals a problem with RAM? Is that right? The RAM I have in there what it came with so I can't imagine it's that.

Any ideas on what the problem could be? Or how to go about fixing it?

Thanks for any help

 

[GGJstudios]

Is it a beep, or the Apple boot-up tone?

 

[lizzyluck]

It's not the one I would usually hear, so I don't think it's the apple start-up, it's sort of monotone, and nothing follows... if that helps?

 

[GGJstudios]

Power On Self-Test Beep Definition - Part 2

 

[lizzyluck]

See that's my problem - It says it's the RAM, but my RAM hasn't been touched since I got it new, except yesterday when I made sure it was in properly.

Any ideas how would I go about fixing such a thing?