OSX loves to freeze and beep at me

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electro.dancer

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At times when my computer just sits all alone I'll come back to it and it is frozen. It will not come out of sleep mode, holding a black screen or the beautiful screen saver, or sometimes it can be a regular frozen screen. No matter what state it is frozen in I get a series of 2 beeps from my computer. I'll shut it down and try to restart, only going to a blank screen and the taunts of the beeps. At first flashing the PRAM would get it going again, but that is useless now. I generally just have to leave it off for maybe 5 or 15 minutes, restart it, and it will be fine again. I've tried various methods to try to figure out what is going on but they just haven't worked. At first I tried swapping out/removing RAM, then I tried running fsck which gave me an OK. When I do leave my computer for maybe an hour the only program I most likely have running is Entourage, checking my email, or Firefox, checking my other email in Gmail. Because of that I thought maybe the ethernet connection could be the issue, but that doesn't seem right. I will pull the cable and at times it will start automatically and other times it won't. I've shut the programs down when I leave and the computer still does it. Can you help me out?
 
First of all, what kind of Mac are you using? Please be specific with the model and also be sure to include how much RAM, hard drive space, and anything else that might be of help. Also, include specifically the Mac OS version you're using.

Personally, beeps like that tend to be hardware issues, mostly RAM. You might want to reseat the RAM modules on the Mac (with the Mac off, of course) and then see if that resolves the problem. It could be that somehow the RAM isn't seated right. It could also be that the RAM modules (one or more) might have gone bad. In that case, pull out the RAM modules and test each one individually. If the problem comes back with one particular RAM module, then you know it's a bad module.
 
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