Thanks, Stewart. I ordered a 512 meg RAM card, and if everything is OK,
I will just get three more (two each all these machines will accept),
and that will be fine for WinXP. If they are truly dead, I suspect that
I will be able to use the memory eventually (and it is only $20).
Mike
Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
Bad or non existent RAM might do this to you.
Stewart
At 07:19 AM 6/13/2008, you wrote:
I was given two relatively new (for me) PCs - a Dell Optiplex GX60 and
an HP Pavilion 563W, each with stickers indicating that they have
Windows XP Home installed. But, while they appear complete inside,
someone pulled the RAM out, and I don't have any PC2100 DDR RAM handy.
I tried to power them up without ram, but all I got were POST beeps
and nothing at all on the monitor. Before I invest in any RAM, does
this complete lack of anything on the monitor indicate a fried MB, or
is the problem only likely lack of RAM?
Both machines have integrated video cards and no AGP slots, so I can't
swap components. I don't even have another machine with that kind of
RAM to "borrow" from for a test.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Mike
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