Welp, we just had a short power blackout around here, and it gave my PC, which I've been leaving active or on standby for the last few weeks because of
some startup problems, a hard shutdown. At first, it wouldn't POST- gave me a beep code which could either mean "Memory error", or
"Graphics failure".
Since my shiny GTX 280 is barely a year young, I was fairly sure it was the RAM. I replaced two of my four 1GB sticks earlier in the thread, so I assumed it
was the two remaining originals. I took the first out of slot 1, and swapped a replacement out of slot 4. It fired up, POSTed, but then froze at the BIOS
logo screen, or at a RAID driver message that you don't see in a working startup. (Note: these issues were one of two of the "startup problems"
referenced above; the third was a tendency to BSoD and restart 3-15 seconds after restart.)
So I took the other original stick out of slot 2, and swapped the other new one out of slot 3 to replace it. It POSTed, and let me into the BIOS, which it
wouldn't do before. Saved, restarted, and it came right up into Windows.
Replacements are already on order, but I'm stuck on 2GB of RAM until then. And I was so looking forward to playing Borderlands tomorrow...
I should be back to 100% in time for Ninja Blade, though, so that's not so bad.
My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours.
I've been writing a bit.
some startup problems, a hard shutdown. At first, it wouldn't POST- gave me a beep code which could either mean "Memory error", or
"Graphics failure".
Since my shiny GTX 280 is barely a year young, I was fairly sure it was the RAM. I replaced two of my four 1GB sticks earlier in the thread, so I assumed it
was the two remaining originals. I took the first out of slot 1, and swapped a replacement out of slot 4. It fired up, POSTed, but then froze at the BIOS
logo screen, or at a RAID driver message that you don't see in a working startup. (Note: these issues were one of two of the "startup problems"
referenced above; the third was a tendency to BSoD and restart 3-15 seconds after restart.)
So I took the other original stick out of slot 2, and swapped the other new one out of slot 3 to replace it. It POSTed, and let me into the BIOS, which it
wouldn't do before. Saved, restarted, and it came right up into Windows.
Replacements are already on order, but I'm stuck on 2GB of RAM until then. And I was so looking forward to playing Borderlands tomorrow...
I should be back to 100% in time for Ninja Blade, though, so that's not so bad.
My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours.
I've been writing a bit.