a) Have you tried with only the chips that Dell provided?

b) Try replacing the CMOS battery.

c) You will have to face Dell Technical Support...

 

you say that any set of 2 do give the beeping, which indeed is a memory problem, it might be that either there is an interruption in one of the memory bus lines or that you managed to blow all the memory sticks to hell with handling them when you are statically charged. Try to borrow sticks from someone else, handle them with care and try again. If it still beeps, chances are that your MB has gone over the brink.

 

Okay well I tried 2 new sticks and still have a problem. When just the 2 new sticks are in, the screen doesn't come up. When I add 2 other sticks, the same problem comes around. Please help!!

 

Hi have you tried One stick..that Dell provided?

 

Normally on a mother board the memory sockets are numbered from 0 to 3; some MBs don't care in which the sticks are, some want them used in sequence. Now some reasoning:

- If you put two in, there is heavy beeping, assuming that you did put them in 0 and 1
(You might check whether indeed you stuck them in the right slots). This occurs when there is a memory problem
- The 2 sticks you put in are OK
- If you put four, it gives the EMem message
My guess is that your board definitely wants 0 and 1 as first and that, if it sees 2 and 3 occupied and 0 and 1 not, it gives the error message; combined with the fact that the first two banks apparently do not function with good sticks, I would say that there is a problem with the memory bus of the first bank(s) on the motherboard. That can be a bad soldering joint, e.g. on the memory plugs, or a broken track or maybe your northbridge is broken (that is the integrated circuit that takes care of memory bus access. I had an Asus MB where the northbridge internally shorted after 13 months.).
Conclusive proof will be if you try the sticks in a different machine; if they work there my theory is correct. Let us know the results, we are curious people.