Series of 4 beeps continuously at startup

As soon as I turn on my 530 Inspiron from Dell with Windows Vista Home Edition s, have at all times a series of 4 beeps.  The CD sounds like it is running, but nothing appears on the monitor.  I tried to find out what to do about the area of troubleshooting the Dell website, but it didn't follow one of the beep codes listed.  One speaks also of switches, but I don't know how to find out what kind of switch I.  The green light at the back is on all the time, and I couldn't find A fires, B, C and D on the back.  Any help that could be given would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you.

I had the same problem and was able to fix it with the following steps:

  1. Unplug everything
  2. Unscrew and remove the side panel
  3. Pop-out each memory card, blow on them and pop that hide them in (make sure that the legs down lock)

One of the memory cards must have shaken lose somehow, even if they seemed fine at first.  My system began immediately to the right upwards later.

All the best,

David

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