Continuous beeping

I've got an HP laptop (TX2508CA), which has been causing me problems (mostly overheating) from the moment I bought it, but now it's worse than usual.

It won't boot up, the HP logo appears for a second and then it just beeps continuously (no lights blink).

I cleaned it out a bit with a can of compressed air, but that didn't help.

I tried taking out the memory modules and putting them in back in (to see if one was the problem or in there was a problem with one of the slots).

There doesn't appear to be an issue with the slots, and if it's an issue with the memory, it's an issue with both of the modules.

Not really sure where to go from here.

I'm more of a software person than a hardware person. :confused

Any and all help is much appreciated.

 

Sounds like you have done all the right things so far. If you cant even get to POST I suspect either Motherboard, RAM or CPU in that order. Have you tested your RAM one stick at a time in both sockets? ie Stick 1 in socket one then stick one in socket 2 then stick in socket 1 and lastly stick 2 in socket 2. (I would have put the RAM at the top of the suspect list but you say it would have to be both sticks, so by inference you have already tested as above.

 

Yeah, that's how I tested the ram. Man, I was hoping it was just the ram.