So a few days ago I came home from work and my PC wouldn't boot. It did the typical "fans start up but PC does not post," so I went ahead and checked my RAM. Sure enough, pulling one of the sticks made things work. So I dug out another stick of RAM and plugged it in. PC worked fine and so I just assumed it was a bad stick. I checked Speccy to make sure that the RAM was working (and it was), but it was wrong. I had plugged another 2GB stick into the slot, but my computer was only detecting 3GB. I just wrote it off as Speccy being wrong and the PC continued to work for a few hours before suddenly turning off and doing the same as before, refusing to boot. I pulled the 2GB stick I had put into the slot and replaced it with a 1GB stick. So far, things seem to be running fine but I'm confused. My current motherboard and RAM are older, but I haven't been able to find any information about similar circumstances. It's been months since I pulled out any components and this issue seemed to have cropped up out of the blue.
Anyone have any idea on what's going on here? Is the motherboard going out, or is another component to blame?
Anyone have any idea on what's going on here? Is the motherboard going out, or is another component to blame?
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