I am not even sure this is the problem, but I've never done this before, and now there is a problem.
I put two 8 GB sticks of ram into my PC yesterday, and I tested them with the win 7 memory test. There were no errors, so I shut down, put some of the old ram back in and rebooted. I started getting various BSOD messages, a different .sys file every time was given as the failing point. I decided to run memtest and made a bootable USB stick.
I rebooted and went into bios, but the bios was very slow to load at that point, but it did load. I looked at the boot options and didn't see USB, so I restarted. It is an old PC and might not have a boot to USB option, I reasoned. I have never updated my bios, so I decided to try that.
After restarting, the desktop is now stuck on the bios loading screen for very long periods. It does not respond to the key commands to enter setup or boot menu. It has posted once, and the windows startup recovery repair tool ran. then it rebooted, and now I am back at the same bios load screen. FWIW I took a photo of my current bios version the first time https://photos.app.goo.gl/SZBx5C27pf9s3AEZ8
Since something is obviously very wrong, I decided to take out the new memory and put in the old memory as I know it is fine. At that point I realized I had not pushed a ram stick all the way in until it clicks.
Is it possible that I damaged something by not pushing the ram stick in completely and starting the PC? I am really not sure what to do at this point.
BTW, after half an hour the bios seems to have responded to my pushing f12 to enter the boot menu. It's not recognizing the USB mouse, but it is responding to the keyboard.
It almost seems like my bios firmware is bugged, and idk what to make of it. Any thoughts?
My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-B85M-D3H
I put two 8 GB sticks of ram into my PC yesterday, and I tested them with the win 7 memory test. There were no errors, so I shut down, put some of the old ram back in and rebooted. I started getting various BSOD messages, a different .sys file every time was given as the failing point. I decided to run memtest and made a bootable USB stick.
I rebooted and went into bios, but the bios was very slow to load at that point, but it did load. I looked at the boot options and didn't see USB, so I restarted. It is an old PC and might not have a boot to USB option, I reasoned. I have never updated my bios, so I decided to try that.
After restarting, the desktop is now stuck on the bios loading screen for very long periods. It does not respond to the key commands to enter setup or boot menu. It has posted once, and the windows startup recovery repair tool ran. then it rebooted, and now I am back at the same bios load screen. FWIW I took a photo of my current bios version the first time https://photos.app.goo.gl/SZBx5C27pf9s3AEZ8
Since something is obviously very wrong, I decided to take out the new memory and put in the old memory as I know it is fine. At that point I realized I had not pushed a ram stick all the way in until it clicks.
Is it possible that I damaged something by not pushing the ram stick in completely and starting the PC? I am really not sure what to do at this point.
BTW, after half an hour the bios seems to have responded to my pushing f12 to enter the boot menu. It's not recognizing the USB mouse, but it is responding to the keyboard.
It almost seems like my bios firmware is bugged, and idk what to make of it. Any thoughts?
My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-B85M-D3H