My macbook beeps three times when turned on and won't boot up continues beeping. any ideas?

when i power up my macbook it begins loudly beeping 3 times. it wont boot and the screen is white and blank.
Any suggestions?It never stops beeping 3 times.

You have some bad RAM in there. Just replace it and it should take care of it.
17" 2.2GHz i7 Quad-Core MacBook Pro  8G RAM  750G HD + OCZ Vertex 3 SSD Boot HD 

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