I have an HP Elitebook 820 G4 and earlier today I went to try to turn it on & it just wouldn't start up. The screen stayed black. But the keyboard light would flash on and off and so would the fan, the fan would spin for like 2 seconds stop then spin again for 2 seconds continuously like it kept trying to push itself to start up but just couldn't. I looked up possible issue & fixes on Google and YouTube and tried a couple of things, for instance, taking the battery out trying to start it and so forth then it came down to checking the RAM sticks. The instructions suggested testing them by removing one at a time & then trying to start it up with only one at a time, to see if one is malfunctioning or faulty. One of them would not only NOT start it up, but was making these loud weird beeping noises I have never heard before, like old old school computer "beep boop beep" type sounds. Then the other one would start up but showed a screen that read "POST configuration change prompts 2E1-Memory size error the system memory size is different from the last startup....etc etc... press enter to continue". So I'm assuming the first one that made the weird beeping sounds was the issue. So I decided to replace it with another RAM stick that I took out of my old ASUS laptop (screen broke on it). & When I started it up, it's giving me the same "POST configuration change prompts 2E1-Memory size error the system memory size is different from the last startup....etc etc... press enter to continue" message. My question(s), am I doing, or did I do the right thing here? & should I click "continue" on the "POST configuration change prompt 2E1-Memory size error" message?
Id really appreciate any help, suggestions, recommendations, references, advice or even opinions, I really don't care, I just want some type of response at this point. Thank you.
Id really appreciate any help, suggestions, recommendations, references, advice or even opinions, I really don't care, I just want some type of response at this point. Thank you.