My 10.6 Mac Pro makes the "bong" noise 3 or 4 times when starting now?

I changed out my hard drive to a faster, larger hard drive. I restored my system to the new hard drive from time machine and now I get 3 to 4 "bong" sounds when the computer starts and the grey screen is up before the apple appears.

Which is it, 3 or 4 chimes?  Here's the definition of each:
3 beeps = no good banks
4 beeps = no good boot images in the boot ROM (and/or bad sys config block)
Power On Selft Test (POST) is doing these checks and causing this.  3 beeps means none of the ram can be seen or the dimm slots aren't working. 

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