buckdog05 Posted January 21, 2009 Posted January 21, 2009 I also tried taking out one of the sticks of ram (it had a total of 512mb ram in two sticks), and than taking out the other stick to see if bad ram was causing the problem but that didn't work either. In addition, I tried taking out both the graphics card and PCI modem.Are both sticks of ram bad or is the mobo shot? The strange thing is that when I take out both sticks of ram, the computer's fans stay spun up and it gives me a series of low-pitched beeps until I turn off the computer. Also, when the ram is in, the fan spins up for a second after I hit the power button. The computer is a Dell Dimension 5100 with a Pentium 4 Processor. Thanks!
Andromeda43 Posted January 21, 2009 Posted January 21, 2009 The list of bad parts in Dell PC's is well documented.From bad power supplies, to bad motherboards, the list just goes on and on.good luck! B)
CoffeeFiend Posted January 21, 2009 Posted January 21, 2009 The list of bad parts in Dell PC's...just like for every other pre-built, pretty much. People want cheap, so they build using cheap parts (and then it breaks).Anyways. It's pretty hard to guess from so little information. And it's normal that it won't work without RAM, and that it'll beep (it's an error code indicating you have no RAM).
buckdog05 Posted January 22, 2009 Author Posted January 22, 2009 Would it be likely that both sticks or ram or bad or that it needs two in to run? The ram stick says PC2-3200UThanks!
Ponch Posted January 22, 2009 Posted January 22, 2009 The probability that both RAM fail at the same time is pretty small. Unless you had a very bad power problem (surge).Do you get anything on the screen ? Have you tried resetting the BIOS ? Was that computer working before ?
RJARRRPCGP Posted January 24, 2009 Posted January 24, 2009 I also tried taking out one of the sticks of ram (it had a total of 512mb ram in two sticks), and than taking out the other stick to see if bad ram was causing the problem but that didn't work either. In addition, I tried taking out both the graphics card and PCI modem.Are both sticks of ram bad or is the mobo shot? The strange thing is that when I take out both sticks of ram, the computer's fans stay spun up and it gives me a series of low-pitched beeps until I turn off the computer. Also, when the ram is in, the fan spins up for a second after I hit the power button. The computer is a Dell Dimension 5100 with a Pentium 4 Processor. Thanks!Reseat the RAM and try again. I had that problem with a Dimension 4600 and then saw one on the RAM modules not clipped in completely.
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