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Can anyone tell me what will happen if i boot my computer

when there is no RAM in it

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Pahala, HI, US | 9 months, 2 weeks ago (0 minutes after post)

lol well it will turn on and give you the front screen but wont let you access anything.

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An Unknown Location | 9 months, 2 weeks ago (9 minutes after post)

Usually it will just beep.

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Marietta, GA, US | 9 months, 2 weeks ago (42 minutes after post)

I wonder, if it had a large enough cache, whether it would still run. It would be super slow, but it might work…

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Honolulu, HI, US | 9 months, 2 weeks ago (5 hours, 16 minutes after post)

You won’t be able to boot at all, since the computer would fail the POST (Power On Self Test). Generally you’d end up with a blank screen (or possibly the screen saying check cable or something similar, which means there’s no picture being sent from the computer) and the computer would beep at you.

It won’t harm the computer, but the computer would be completely useless.

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9 months, 2 weeks ago (18 hours, 22 minutes after post)

Everyone is correct. NOTHING will happen…

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Anonymous #
9 months, 2 weeks ago (1 day after post)

You would also need to have an operating system that would allow access to the hard drive. Even the mainframes had to have a little RAM, even it utilized a hard drive as primary memory. Even the mainframes BIOS had to be downloaded in RAM, even they utilized some form of RAM.

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