I saw that others had the same question, but mine seems to be a little different. I am trying to improve my Macbook Pro 4 GB to 8 GB memory, however, when I start the laptop it emits 3 beeps, without loading the operating system and just keep it. I know 5 years can now be considered a good amount of time and I should consider upgrading to a newer laptop but after spending a few hundred bucks upgrading the RAM and the SSD, I don't want to give up before at least trying to fix it, especially since the newer Macbooks are incompatible with both so I wouldn't even be able to transfer it to a new computer.MacBook pro emits 3 beeps after upgrade memory Could that be linked to the problem I'm having right now ?

Those modifications took place more than a year ago and the Macbook has worked perfectly until now.īefore it started doing the 3 beeps things though, over the past few months the fans would sometimes start spinning really fast when doing some really mundane tasks and I noticed in the activity monitor that a kernel_task was sometimes taking up a few hundred % of the CPU for no apparent reason. Also, over the course of the 5 years I've had this computer I replaced the RAM for 2 8go sticks (DDR3, 1600 MHz), took the Superdrive out to put the Hard Drive in its place and added an 500go SSD in the Hard Drive's place. I should mention that in hope of fixing whatever software issue, I updated to macOS High Sierra from El Capitan, which doesn't seem to have done anything.

The computer starts up and works fine the rest of the time, it just has this 'incident' happening from time to time. I looked it up and that sound appears to be the sign of a bad RAM so I opened my laptop, took the RAM out, cleaned it and placed it back (switching both RAM sticks) but yesterday it happened again. Since then it's been happening from time to time, seemingly randomly. Then a few moments later it did it again.

I shut it down by pressing the power button for a few seconds and turned it back on after a few minutes and it booted up fine. Recently I've had some issues with it.Ī few days ago it froze and after a few seconds the screen went black and it started beeping 3 times (then pause, then 3 more beeps, etc…). I have a Macbook Pro 15' mid 2012 (right before the Retina).

Macbook pro 3 beeps on occasional