Late-2005 Mini; Continual Single Beep after Chime

Late 2005 mini has a steady single beep after chime.
It will not boot from CD and won't eject the CD.
Open Firmware command "eject cd" gives an EJECT error after a long wait.
(I took it apart to remove the CD).
From what I've found so far, a single beep every and no chime indicates a memory error but I couldn't find any mention of continual beeping. The power LED remains does not blink. My Mini sounds like a heart monitor!
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Try other RAM...
Can you count the beeps or flashes?
1 beep = no RAM installed
2 beeps = incompatible RAM types
3 beeps = no good banks
4 beeps = no good boot images in the boot ROM (and/or bad sys config block)
5 beeps = processor is not usable
In addition to the beeps, on some computers the power LED will flash a corresponding number of times plus one. The LED will repeat the sequence after approximately a 5-second pause. The tones are only played once.
Note: In this case, a flash is considered to be 1/4 second or 250 ms or greater in length.

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