Posted on 11/26/2019 7:26:55 PM PST by dayglored
Looks to me like maybe a broken RAM chip/module, or possibly corrosion/dust/dirt on a socket contact. New RAM and compressed air to blow out any dust are likely to help.
Hopefully not corrosion or a lifted signal trace on the board. Those are possible but much less likely.
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Same. Job at SAIC had given the PC oversight to some Mac guy, so all the stuff for our use was the dreaded apple crap.
Many hours using AutoCAD on my and other MS type PCs.
The Mac version was like Klingon. What an alien operating system.
Remembered the old "I can't use a Mac..." I just dragged around my old panasonic lug-about.
no more than yours.
Been there, done that. Many moons ago. I’m no longer into self-flagellation with the cat-o-nine tails. I just bought this HP a month ago figuring the transition would be a breeze. Something changed since my last foray into conversion world. I’ll beat UEFI, Fast Boot and whatever else is in my way if it kills me. But LM Community Forum or HP Forum are not the places to look for any solution. The October 2019 source I found and followed failed as well.
Try, try, try again.
Ha!
That was just part of the results!
I showed that to the “repair guy” who “fixed” it and he said he physically checked the RAM but then admitted he hadn’t checked the ones buried inside of it.
I’m guessing those are the problem sticks.
If I ever get some money that we all aren’t gonna eat, I’m getting the sticks pulled and replaced.
It guts me that it might only be a relatively simple fix that I’m scared to do, myself.
I’ve never disassembled a laptop this complex so completely before and I do not wanna make it worse.
[where did these extra screws come from?]
Bizarrely, if I scrape it to bare metal and reinstall the OS, it does run for a couple weeks and then the BSODs start again.
I run temp monitoring software and watch that religiously and heat doesn’t seem to be the issue because it runs fairly cool, considering it’s a beast, plus it sits on a massive laptop cooling pad with a 6” fan.
Has to be the RAM going bad.
I hope...
I am retired. I can watch TV, play online poker and post here while drinking my rum and coke.
Check for BIOS updates.
Is your motherboard battery good?
No idea.
He claims to have checked that, too.
Did that.
In fact, the latest update coincided with all the BSODs so I downgraded it.
It worked okay for a while after that but progressively got worse until it completely stopped working at all.
Would not boot up in *any* mode.
However, I’m with many others. I’ll continue to use Windows 7 or Linux, keeping a Windows 10 programmed hard drive handy (I have a docking tray where I can change out my hard drives).
For a couple of years I had two drives in my computer 1 had windows7 the other XP. When I booted up if I wanted windows 7 I hit delete at boot up and got my bios mem screen. Then change boot up disk..
I still have my Win2000Pro discs.
I keep hoping that someday...
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Switching to windows 10 from windows 7 is one of the regrets of my life. I threw up my hands and defected to apple, so much more rational and intuitive.
Are you telling me Windows XP has been replaced?
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When they first offered the free upgrade, I tried it. I had win 8.1. I kept the win 10 upgrade for less than 30 minutes. After implementing my monitor display was so messed up that the only way to turn off my PC was to unplug it. I have a laptop with win 10 and it works fine, but I will never attempt to upgrade my two pc’s with 8.1.
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