Dimension 4300 driving me beeping crazy

[RDilling]

I have recently aquired a dell dimension 4300 from a friend of mine that was partially disassembled. everything was there so i put it back together and now when i go to power it up all i get is three beeps and the monitor shuts down. I dont even get a picture on the monitor before it powers down. on the back of the tower where there are the four lights (a,b,c,d) a & b are yellow and c & d are green. anybody have any ideas before i go beeping crazy?

 

[iss]

Got to dell4me.com and go to the support section look up the manual for that model. better eyt if the machine still has the service tag on it enter the service tag number and you can get all the info you need on that particular machine.

 

[KingCody]

a friend of mine that was partially disassembled.

well I hope you put your "partially dissasembled friend" back together first!! ...lol :haha:

but seriously, according to dell's website, a&b=yellow/c&d=green means: Memory failed to be sized or enabled.

remove the memory blow out any dust, and carefully reseat it

 

[KingCody]

I HAVE REPLACED THE MEMORY AND FINALLY GOT THIS THING TO FIRE UP. BUT NOW ALL IT DOES IS START TO BOOT, GOES TO THE DELL SCREEN THEN STARTS TO BOOT AND THEN SAYS PRESS F1 TO CONTINUE OR F2 TO RUN UTILITYS. PRESS F1 AND IT DOES NOTHING F2 YOU GO TO UTILITIES SET UP AND THATS AS FAR AS YOU CAN GO

sounds like the hard drive has no operating system on it. you will have to format the drive (unless installing windowsXP, it will format for you) and install an operating system from scratch. once that is done, you should be good to go

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