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<blockquote data-quote="RandyDSok" data-source="post: 159588" data-attributes="member: 201">I guess that life is thinking that I was in need of new computers more than I was thinking it... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big Grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />The main computer I use at work, the motherboard decided to not show all of the memory I had it populated with... So I switched around memory and it seemed that no matter what slots I put them in... it wasn't going to show more than 4Gb and that was all. Since it obviously wasn't an issue with a bad slot... I was hoping that somehow the BIOS had just gotten corrupted ( power a power spike or some such ) so I reflashed the BIOS .... and then nothing.. it wouldn't even post after that. So it's pretty clear the problem was something bad in the hardware and not a software related issue.So I ordered a new motherboard ( the same MSI B450 Tomahawk I'd gotten for the house since it's a rock solid board ), a Ryzen 3 2200G ( since I only need basic graphics for work ) and 8Gb of DDR4 3200 memory ( 16Gb would have been nice but really 8 does me fine at work and I needed to save a few bucks with Christmas right around the corner ).The new stuff should get here about Monday... so I won't be down long. I'm in the process of setting up a temporary Windows running on my old home components so I can get a few of the files I hadn't backed up recently and have them available for when I do another clean install on the new parts.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RandyDSok, post: 159588, member: 201"] I guess that life is thinking that I was in need of new computers more than I was thinking it... :D The main computer I use at work, the motherboard decided to not show all of the memory I had it populated with... So I switched around memory and it seemed that no matter what slots I put them in... it wasn't going to show more than 4Gb and that was all. Since it obviously wasn't an issue with a bad slot... I was hoping that somehow the BIOS had just gotten corrupted ( power a power spike or some such ) so I reflashed the BIOS .... and then nothing.. it wouldn't even post after that. So it's pretty clear the problem was something bad in the hardware and not a software related issue. So I ordered a new motherboard ( the same MSI B450 Tomahawk I'd gotten for the house since it's a rock solid board ), a Ryzen 3 2200G ( since I only need basic graphics for work ) and 8Gb of DDR4 3200 memory ( 16Gb would have been nice but really 8 does me fine at work and I needed to save a few bucks with Christmas right around the corner ). The new stuff should get here about Monday... so I won't be down long. I'm in the process of setting up a temporary Windows running on my old home components so I can get a few of the files I hadn't backed up recently and have them available for when I do another clean install on the new parts. [/QUOTE]

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