Upon booting a workstation, it emits a series of long beeps, but nothing is displayed on the monitor. The beeping pattern repeats indefinitely. What is the MOST likely cause?
The RAM modules are not properly seated or have failed.
The presence of long, repeated beep codes during startup is indicative of a hardware issue related to the motherboard POST process. Of the given answers, the POST beeps are likely from RAM that is not properly seated. It could also be another hardware component like the CPU or a video card having issues. POST codes indicate unrecoverable hardware issues within internal components of a computer during boot up.
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