So recently I had bought an older Alienware to restore as it was missing a few parts(battery, charger, hdd, optical drive) and I bought it as per seller saying it booted into the bios but did not contain a hard drive to further boot. I received the package and a charger not used by the seller and attempted to boot to the bios using the same ram the seller claims to have used when selling the laptop. After reseating the ram multiple different times I still get the same problem that it turns on, all lights light up, but no splash screen and it just beeps twice before repeating. I have been told that this is a ram problem but I am looking for solutions for how to fix this so that I might be able to boot without buying a new motherboard.
The beep code registers as a ram failure but the sticks I’ve used aren’t working and I’ve tried 3 it might end up being a socket problem