I NEED A SOLUTION

[BirthSE]

kinda just wanted to come back to talk abt my issues with my old 12-13 year old PC
its an LGA775 socket its a Dell inspiron 560 from 2010 it has a Intel Pentium E6700 CPU which is slow I have 16gb of DDR3 1333 MHz ram and a GigaByte GT 730

now sometime around september i decided to finally use it again and it started giving me beep codes which usually isnt good but i ignored them but what do you know 3 days later i start having issues such as me not being able to get past the American megatrends screen and it gave me errors such as Cmos Checksum Error and keyboard failure and no matter how many times i clicked the F1 button and the F2 to get into bios i couldnt get past the megatrends screen eventually i started troubleshooting until one day it didnt want to post anymore it just gave me a black screen. can someone give me a solution to this please

now also i decided to buy a Core2 Quad Q9550 to put into this machine to see if it might be a CPU problem as of right now im just waiting for it to ship

[aledsav1]

I would completely strip it down and rebuild, giving everything a clean..and replace battery.  though given its age something in the system might just be dying/died

[BirthSE]

1 minute ago, aledsav1 said:

I would completely strip it down and rebuild, giving everything a clean..and replace battery.  though given its age something in the system might just be dying/died

I think i might have broken it by putting more ram then it can handle just now did i discover that the Dell Inpiron 560 can only handle 8gb of ram instead of 16gb of ram that might have completely broke my CPU 

[aledsav1]

I would find it odd that the cpu would break with to much ram..and just seen some posts elsewhere of people with 16g in a 560 with a e5700 cpu

[aledsav1]

you'll have to have updated the bios for the 16g to work though

[BirthSE]

3 minutes ago, aledsav1 said:

I would find it odd that the cpu would break with to much ram..and just seen some posts elsewhere of people with 16g in a 560 with a e5700 cpu

would it be that my motherboard broke considering the age of this old computer

[aledsav1]

it might not be broke? maybe the 16g of ram without the bios update just stopped it working and it needs to be reset, so pull the bios battery, unplug from mains and press start button a few times then put battery in and plug and see if it starts? with only 8g of ram in it

[BirthSE]

Just now, aledsav1 said:

it might not be broke? maybe the 16g of ram without the bios update just stopped it working and it needs to be reset, so pull the bios battery, unplug from mains and press start button a few times then put battery in and plug and see if it starts? with only 8g of ram in it

what if i just run it with 8gb of ram only wouldnt that fix my issue but how come i still cant get my keyboard to function?
I would suspect that it would be the motherboard and the cpu i never thought the RAM could cause this many issues.

[aledsav1]

try what I said, reset cmos

[Cyberat]

CMOS battery DEAD is what most people overlook in an old system throwing post errors.

First & Foremost - Replace the battery, it's a 2032 type 3.2V battery.

But do address the issue of RAM as posted above, someone mentioned updating the Bios.

[aledsav1]

8 hours ago, Caroline said:

It basically says nowhere this is a Dell Inspiron 560 lol, not saying it's a lie just it's not actual evidence of anything.

No I agree it does not but that is taken from a very large discussion on this subject, so I thought it might be of some supportive use to this situ, as I doubt there are a group of others lying about it, I could be wrong.