This is a different PC from the one in my other thread.
The issue is as follows, the PC was fine a few years ago, however, at one point I remember thinking one of the RAM slots was messed up so I re-arranged my 3 2GB sticks in the 4 slots. It worked. Flash-forward a few years later. I come home, run the PC, it works fine for a bit, but then it would at times shut off randomly and give me a beep code. I think it was four (du du du du, du du du du, ...) which would be a RAM read/write failure. Well, I could always turn it back on and, as long as I didn't overuse the machine, it would last quite a bit before erroring out (i.e. it wasn't such a big deal. Memory can be broken and as long as you don't try to access it it's fine). However, it happened again today, so I though to remove a stick of RAM because I found it odd "could it be that two of my slots are messed up, or are two RAM sticks messed up, or have these all finally died?". Having 4 GB I ran it again, it works as long as it does, but then something happens. I get BSOD (the screen was really messed up too, but that may have been due to having flux installed. I.e., I had artifacts here and there). Sadly, I didn't have time to read it. After that, without touching anything, I just try to turn back on the PC. The monitor screen says no HDMI connected when it clearly is, I then manually go through the monitor settings to VGA, says no VGA connected. At times it would say there is no data coming it (i.e. it gets that the cable is connected but doesn't treat it as such because no signal is actually coming through). Thus, my monitor enters powersave mode/orange light & off mode. I then thought, OK, is it the OS or is it the monitor? Since I have TrueCrypt I thought to just smash at the keyboard until I type too long of a password so it gives a loud beep. That would at least tell me it's loaded. However, I then noticed that the numlocks key/etc. wouldn't light up. I.e., it seemed that all connections weren't doing anything. I then tried turn off the PC, unplug it, press power to drain, re-plug, turn on to see if that fixes it. It didn't. I also tried removing the CMOS and putting it back in. Oddly enough, doing that at least made the fans go faster than they did prior (or at least more buzzing noise).
I honestly don't know what's going on, especially because I missed the BSOD error name.
I would've thought it's something with the VGA, but then the keyboard also didn't work. Since all connections didn't work I thought motherboard or PSU, but that would amaze me (because usually my issues have been with RAM) and I wouldn't know how to fix it. (I also thought it could've been a video card error, but, again, the keyboard not working in any USB port made me dismiss that).
Thanks for any help. Honestly, when all your PCs with password managers die at the same time, it's difficult to have to restart everything.
The issue is as follows, the PC was fine a few years ago, however, at one point I remember thinking one of the RAM slots was messed up so I re-arranged my 3 2GB sticks in the 4 slots. It worked. Flash-forward a few years later. I come home, run the PC, it works fine for a bit, but then it would at times shut off randomly and give me a beep code. I think it was four (du du du du, du du du du, ...) which would be a RAM read/write failure. Well, I could always turn it back on and, as long as I didn't overuse the machine, it would last quite a bit before erroring out (i.e. it wasn't such a big deal. Memory can be broken and as long as you don't try to access it it's fine). However, it happened again today, so I though to remove a stick of RAM because I found it odd "could it be that two of my slots are messed up, or are two RAM sticks messed up, or have these all finally died?". Having 4 GB I ran it again, it works as long as it does, but then something happens. I get BSOD (the screen was really messed up too, but that may have been due to having flux installed. I.e., I had artifacts here and there). Sadly, I didn't have time to read it. After that, without touching anything, I just try to turn back on the PC. The monitor screen says no HDMI connected when it clearly is, I then manually go through the monitor settings to VGA, says no VGA connected. At times it would say there is no data coming it (i.e. it gets that the cable is connected but doesn't treat it as such because no signal is actually coming through). Thus, my monitor enters powersave mode/orange light & off mode. I then thought, OK, is it the OS or is it the monitor? Since I have TrueCrypt I thought to just smash at the keyboard until I type too long of a password so it gives a loud beep. That would at least tell me it's loaded. However, I then noticed that the numlocks key/etc. wouldn't light up. I.e., it seemed that all connections weren't doing anything. I then tried turn off the PC, unplug it, press power to drain, re-plug, turn on to see if that fixes it. It didn't. I also tried removing the CMOS and putting it back in. Oddly enough, doing that at least made the fans go faster than they did prior (or at least more buzzing noise).
I honestly don't know what's going on, especially because I missed the BSOD error name.
I would've thought it's something with the VGA, but then the keyboard also didn't work. Since all connections didn't work I thought motherboard or PSU, but that would amaze me (because usually my issues have been with RAM) and I wouldn't know how to fix it. (I also thought it could've been a video card error, but, again, the keyboard not working in any USB port made me dismiss that).
Thanks for any help. Honestly, when all your PCs with password managers die at the same time, it's difficult to have to restart everything.
