comp not starting up

[Juice Daddy]

that cmos thing is fine, it meant something changed, and the defaults were loaded...

probably from adjusting the ram

 

[Ste]

Oh Im sorry i didn't see that part. You will get that error after clearing the CMOS, its ok, hit F1 and let it Continue.

If it still does not go past that, dissconnect everything but CPU, RAM and Video card then restart and see what happens.

 

[jj33189]

ok so we took out everything but the CPU, memory and the vid card.. no luck
how sure are ya guys that its the card?

 

[Ste]

Where not.


Ok take the RAM out, when you reboot you should get RAM errors from speaker.

 

[jj33189]

ok we took the ram out. and then there was a beep when we started the comp.. the same beep that was already there.. so i assume that the ram is the issue.. then we tried switching the places of the two ram sticks (one 512 and a 256).. that didnt work either.. it just keeps giving the same beep

 

[Juice Daddy]

I wonder if one of the ram sticks went bad?

before any of this, did you intstall any new software or hardware?

 

[Ste]

you shouldn't get a single beep if no RAM is present.

Try 1 stick at a time.