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| 167635 | 2003-08-14 05:02:00 | I recently bought a new motherboard (Soltek 75MRN-L) and CPU (AMD Athlon XP2600+).. Nice enough, aye. Seeing as hardware isn't my high point (too much/so far/yet) - I was wondering what I basically need to be able to use the machine? I have the CPU and heatsink on the motherboard, and the motherboard in the case, sorted out the power/usb/hdd/fdd connections and stuff, just scared to turn it on.. Cos I don't have any RAM in it yet (looking at some cheap 512Mb PC2700 DDR333 next week) what would happen if I turned it on? Or should I just wait..? |
Rank32 (3732) | ||
| 167636 | 2003-08-14 05:09:00 | It won't do ant harm 'cause it won't go until you put some ram in it. The power supply & CPU fans will spin up & you will get a bunch of beeps which are telling you there is a problem. NO ram. |
Stumped Badly (348) | ||
| 167637 | 2003-08-14 05:14:00 | Cheers man, I got the beeps. Which reminds me.. I gotta unplug the PC speaker. |
Rank32 (3732) | ||
| 167638 | 2003-08-14 05:51:00 | > Which reminds me.. I gotta unplug the PC speaker. If you do that how will you know if your PC is trying to tell you that it has a problem? |
Fire-and-Ice (3910) | ||
| 167639 | 2003-08-14 05:55:00 | True.. Reckon I could hook up an LED or something? |
Rank32 (3732) | ||
| 167640 | 2003-08-15 01:39:00 | It is possible to hook up a light instead of the PC Speaker.. Ive seen it done but its a ton of hassle to be honest! What a PC "Needs": PSU Motherboard CPU RAM Graphics Card and a medium to run an OS off.. Even just a CD-Rom drive can run Knoppix fine if you're looking at 512MB RAM! No HDD/FDD needed ;-) |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 167641 | 2003-08-15 08:22:00 | chilling it shouldn't be hard to replace the speaker with a light, just get a light with the same wattage | roofus (483) | ||
| 167642 | 2003-08-15 09:28:00 | LEDs require current limited (20 mA) DC Speakers do not like DC. Stick to accounting roofus? |
godfather (25) | ||
| 167643 | 2003-08-15 09:36:00 | Actually it is usually the little inbuilt PC speaker that gives you the beeps not the regular full blown speakers. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 167644 | 2003-08-15 10:29:00 | Also the beeps at post can be a help in diagnosing problems with your system not booting properly. Check out you BIOS manufacturers site for a list of the beep codes & what they stand for. Different beep code for each potential problem, I'd leave the speaker active if I were you. |
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