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mousge78
Posted: 20 April 2006 04:25 AM   [ Ignore ]  
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is it possible to boot to the BIOs if you have no ram or hard drive installed? i heard it is not possible without ram but am not sure

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gr00vy0ne
Posted: 20 April 2006 06:04 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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I think it depends on the system. In my experience, most systems need some amount of memory present to boot otherwise they beep at you notifying you of a problem.

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