Trouble pulling it together...

raoul_1101

raoul_1101

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Right now, I'm determined to get a computer running from only the parts I have now for someone who has virtually no money to put in it.

Right now i have a power supply, processor, and a graphics card together just to see if i can get it running. When i turn on the power though, all i get is a greeting of three or four beeps. I'm very sure the processor and motherboard are good and compatable, for they were in a computer together not too long ago. The graphics card might not be good, I didn't think that would cause the beeping though. Does anyone know what my problem is?
Would it still go into the BIOS wihtout a hardrive or ram?
 
raoul_1101 said:
Right now i have a power supply, processor, and a graphics card together just to see if i can get it running. Does anyone know what my problem is?
Would it still go into the BIOS wihtout a hardrive or ram?
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You need to have a stick of memory in before it will boot up
 
What are the specs, video card psu ect.?
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Hahaha. I dont know one thing about any of the parts. I still can't find out what kind of mobo it is. i know its dell though.....

You need to have a stick of memory in before it will boot up
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Ok, so it deffinately won't go into the BIOS without some memory. thats good. there's still a chance this computer will live.
 
You have no ram or a hard drive? Why are you bothering with it then?

I am pretty sure you need ram to even boot into the bio's. Of course I have never tried doing it with out some ram, so I could be wrong.

I know you don't need a hard drive to get into the bio's though.
 
I didn't think you had to have ram to boot to bios... atleast i know you don't with laptops

I though it has a VERY small amount build in, like in kb's
 
oh i do have ram and a hard drive, there just not accesable at this time, so i was testing the parts i have in front of me.
 
After you get the ram/hard drive you shouldn't have problems... if you do keep posted and im sure someone can help
 
ThatGuy16 said:
I didn't think you had to have ram to boot to bios... atleast i know you don't with laptops

I though it has a VERY small amount build in, like in kb's
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I know of no computers that can do that :)

Older laptops had built in memory if that's what you mean...
 
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