[ale] No RAM = No BIOS?

[mike at trausch.us]

On 08/15/2012 04:37 PM, JD wrote:
> Anyone seen a PC not get to the BIOS screen just because RAM isn't installed?
> There isn't a troubleshooting section in the MB manual. No beeps at boot either.

BIOS cannot work without RAM.  Simple as that.

You *should* be getting some form of beeping, but if there's no speaker
in the computer...

	--- Mike

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