3 BEEPS AT STARTUP (MBP 13' late 2011) new hard drive

HI, I need some help I have changed the hard drive myself of MacBook Pro (the hard drive died after 3 years of intense use)
(I have a mac book pro 13' from late 2011- 8go ram, 500go hard drive, and i5 double core)
So, I have now my new clean hard drive inside the baby, and I turn it on, and load the CD of OS X SNOW LEOPARD bought on Apple s website)
http://imgur.com/ZaAymMr
Here I have the white screen. I click on the cd icon, and the BEEP BEEP BEEP .... BEEP BEEP BEEP .. And so on, so I force it to turn off.
WHATS GOING ON??? I've heard that it's a ram issue, I removed it and placed it back up and there is still the issue...
I you have any idea how to fix that pls tell me, thanks

3 tones at startup is usually an indicator of a RAM issue:
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202768
Paulinnn wrote:
So, I have now my new clean hard drive inside the baby, and I turn it on, and load the CD of OS X SNOW LEOPARD bought on Apple s website)
If you are using the White retail Snow Leopard disk to install that OSX, it will not work.  I have a late 2011 MBP and that disk and I have tried to do that thus I speak from experience.  (There is a way to install Snow Leopard but not that way).
The proper way to install the original OSX is to boot the MBP with the OPTION + COMMAND + R keys and follow the instructions.  This will require a solid Internet connection.  (This should install Lion)
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT4718
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