Mac troubleshooting

[MTFT Games]

so my grandpa had an old mac and gave it to us and my mom took it to her preschool to use but its not working now. im kind of the computer person of the family so she brought it to me

 

i looked it up and it beeps once every couple of seconds for a bit which i found means missing ram, then goes to a white screen with a folder with a ? which i think means that it cant find os files or something. i opened up the ram slots and there is indeed ram there and i tried changing the slots ect but it still doesnt work

i thought this would be the right section to find some ideas to fix it

ill post pics when i get home

[ricksteendam1]

1 minute ago, MTFT Games said:

so my grandpa had an old mac and gave it to us and my mom took it to her preschool to use but its not working now. im kind of the computer person of the family so she brought it to me

 

i looked it up and it beeps once every couple of seconds for a bit which i found means missing ram, then goes to a white screen with a folder with a ? which i think means that it cant find os files or something. i opened up the ram slots and there is indeed ram there and i tried changing the slots ect but it still doesnt work

i thought this would be the right section to find some ideas to fix it

ill post pics when i get home

is it running the latest os?

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

13 minutes ago, MTFT Games said:

so my grandpa had an old mac and gave it to us and my mom took it to her preschool to use but its not working now. im kind of the computer person of the family so she brought it to me

 

i looked it up and it beeps once every couple of seconds for a bit which i found means missing ram, then goes to a white screen with a folder with a ? which i think means that it cant find os files or something. i opened up the ram slots and there is indeed ram there and i tried changing the slots ect but it still doesnt work

i thought this would be the right section to find some ideas to fix it

ill post pics when i get home

The folder with a ? means it's missing the startup disk (or it can't be found). Which model and OS are you running? 

[MTFT Games]

i dont know the os or model since i got it after it broke but heres a pic if it helps find the model

[lieder1987]

hook it up to the internet and hold Apple + R when you power it up, that should put it into recovery mode.

 

[MTFT Games]

i think ive tried that but i didnt hook it up to internet so ill try it again

tomarow 

[lieder1987]

1 hour ago, MTFT Games said:

i think ive tried that but i didnt hook it up to internet so ill try it again

 

Yeah it wont do anything without an internet connection.

[MTFT Games]

sorry for the wait

I plugged in an ethernet and held apple + r but it just starts its beeping of no ram before the screen even comes on

after it stopped beeping all I got was a mouse cursor instead of the ? folder

[lieder1987]

You could trying booting it up with only one ram chip, but other than that, sounds like you need new ram at the least.

[MTFT Games]

well I have some extra laptop ram so I could see if that fits but otherwise, I was wanting to do this without spending money

thanks for the help