Can a computer run with no RAM?

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Hi Everybody,
Well my question is kind of given away by the title so ya, Can a computer run with no RAM? The reason i ask is that i have an old computer that i want to use to speed up renders in Blender (awsome opensource 3D prog, www.blender.org) by using it as my one computer render farm. Unfortionatly i took the 256Mb Ram Stick out of it and put it in my current computer leaving it with no RAM. :eek: Will it work for my purposes?
 
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It will start the BIOS, but that's it. You won't even be able to start the Operating System............ ........ ROFLMAO! :p :cool:
 
It will fail on the POST, so your monitor wont even turn on and the system will be at a standstill while the onboard speaker beeps. I know this from personal experience because my last RAM I had died. :)
 
No it couldn't run DOS at all, an OS requires instructions to be loaded, and the CPU looks for these in RAM. You can't load anything without RAM.
 
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