Need help with inspiron 8300

[wisedude]

I went to the recycle center today and found a dell inspiron 8300. It was quite dusty, the case was scratched up, however it had 2 gigs of pc3200 Ram and I'm not quite sure about the processor. I went home and put in my old Geforce 2 into the AGP slot, and it doesn't seem to work. When I turn on the computer, the power lights go on as well as the fans. The computer beeps two times quickly, however the monitor fails to recieve a signal. I should mention that this computer lacks an optical drive or a hard drive.

Please help, thanks in advance

[Poly15]

Try a different PSU.... Those Dell PSU's are like $2. They are horrible and I have seen that same thing happen with PSU problems. If that isn't the case try different memory.

[wisedude]

i don't have another psu. is it worth trying a different video card? i do have a pci card lying around, maybe the agp slot is broken? all of the power led's were on as well as the fan

[mnewxcv]

damn your lucky! try the 2 gigs in your comp and run memtest on em. and for gods sake, take off the hsf and see what cpu is there!

[Disposibleteen]

The 8300 series use Northwood CPUs and some generic ram with loose timings (probably hynix).