[ale] No RAM = No BIOS?

[Greg Clifton]

IIRC, you should get 3 beeps for no RAM and 8 beeps for no video card/bad
RAM on your video card. But with ATX power supply, I'm not sure the MB will
power on without the CPU, since it is a logic switch, isn't that logic in
the CPU? Could be wrong on that, maybe it is MOBO logic. Regardless,
there's not much point to powering up with neither CPU nor RAM installed is
there? "That does not compute...."

GC

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 5:41 PM, mike at trausch.us <mike at trausch.us> wrote:

> On 08/15/2012 04:53 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > it SHOULD send beep codes with no ram (or cpu).
>
> I'd like to know how a motherboard can send beep codes without a
> processor.  :-P
>
> Incidentally, I've never seen a MB w/o CPU do _anything_ but power up.
>
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