My problem started when my PC suddenly
crashed after 2 or 3 minutes
after booting. The
fans were running, but
no signal from the monitor.
After a few
unplugging, it'll come back to life and would run
flawless until I shut down 6 to 7 hours later. I did photoshop and played games.
Sometimes when I
first turned it on, only the
fans would run but the monitor, keyboard, mouse
didn't have the
power. No beeping. No harddisk activity. It's dead before it even goes to windows. So it's not a
Virus or a Windows problem.
Then days later, it won't let me go to windows anymore no matter how many times I unplugged and plugged it.
I read online that it could be a
bad RAM. So I took
1 (of the 2)
RAM sticks out of the
2nd slot. It booted normally and didn't have a crash for 2 days (I had it turned on and off at least
8 times). So it's a
bad RAM stick, right?
Not sure.
Curious, I have to
test the "
good" RAM stick to the
2nd slot to know it's not the
motherboard's 2nd memory slot that's causing the problem.
The
same problem occurred. Only the fans were working. No monitor or the keyboard and the mouse. Won't boot to windows. I tried inserting it in and out several times, same result.
So it's a
bad (2nd)
memory slot?
This time I placed the "
bad" RAM stick into the "
good"
1st slot. It won't boot also. Same problem, with just the fans working. I tried it several times also, I really pushed it hard, making sure it really went in after the "
clicks". Same result.
What's going on? Both the
2nd slot and the
RAM in it got
damaged? Can that be
possible?
Anyway, I was tired, confused, and was sweating bad, I didn't remember trying so hard pushing to install those RAM sticks 2 years ago. So I
put back the
"good" Ram stick to its
slot 1 and it's all good (even if it's only half of the RAM now).
A
bad memory slot or a
bad RAM stick, any
thoughts? It could be
neither.