Damn, bloomin' computers
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2018 3:30 pm
Hi all
So, I had to have a bit of a shift around at home, to accommodate a new piece of furniture, so I ran down my caches and shut down the PC (which has been on since I moved here 8 months or so ago).
Got everything back in place and powered up the PC, which had moved literally about 8 inches...and all I got was a single weak sounding "beep" every 5 seconds or so
So, out came the screwdrivers and a quick removal of my two GPU's so I could get to the mainboard and see if anything was wrong.
All seemed OK, so I put the first GPU back in and powered up...still the beeps continued. Took out that GPU and put the second one in, in a different slot and with different PCIe cables. Still beeps
Next steps was to think laterally and to guess that maybe, having been "warm" for all this time, the memory DIMMs might need reseating (the old expansion/contraction problem), esp as the PC was shut down for about an hour. THAT solved it and PC is now back up and running but with just ONE GPU.
It'll stay like that as I need to get some VAT accounts finished by tomorrow and now it's working again, it's tempting fate to try and add the second GPU back. So, a few less GPU tasks will be completed for now.
ahhh...computers eh!!!
regards
Tim
So, I had to have a bit of a shift around at home, to accommodate a new piece of furniture, so I ran down my caches and shut down the PC (which has been on since I moved here 8 months or so ago).
Got everything back in place and powered up the PC, which had moved literally about 8 inches...and all I got was a single weak sounding "beep" every 5 seconds or so
So, out came the screwdrivers and a quick removal of my two GPU's so I could get to the mainboard and see if anything was wrong.
All seemed OK, so I put the first GPU back in and powered up...still the beeps continued. Took out that GPU and put the second one in, in a different slot and with different PCIe cables. Still beeps
Next steps was to think laterally and to guess that maybe, having been "warm" for all this time, the memory DIMMs might need reseating (the old expansion/contraction problem), esp as the PC was shut down for about an hour. THAT solved it and PC is now back up and running but with just ONE GPU.
It'll stay like that as I need to get some VAT accounts finished by tomorrow and now it's working again, it's tempting fate to try and add the second GPU back. So, a few less GPU tasks will be completed for now.
ahhh...computers eh!!!
regards
Tim