Trouble on start-up

My black macbook started crashing quite a bit, with different programs crashing (firefox, iphoto, word etc) I then would get messages telling me I needed to restart (the screen came up with various languages)
Now when I reboot it either won't get past the grey screen and starts making annoying beeping sounds or the apple and load wheel come up but won't continue further.
After many restarts pressing various keys (holding option) or holding option and command I managed to load it a couple of times and updated to 10.5.6 and the latest security update, but now I can't get it to load up anymore.
Any suggestions? I don't have the startup disk with me.

Are you still hearing the beeping sounds? How many beeps do you hear?
Sounds like your RAM may have gone bad. Check out this article: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1651
and reseat the RAM modules and/or remove one at a time to see if you can get things running again.
If you're near an Apple store, set up an appointment and have a Genius take a look at it.
~Lyssa

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