I was up all night fixing a modem then router problem. The modem kept cycling and negotiating channels. Normally restarting it would solve that issue. It did not. So I factory reset it. Then that was where me being tired after being up all day and now about 2:30 am, I missed an important piece of the puzzle. Ron got up at three to use his iPad and it wouldn’t connect because I had the modem out of the system. I had it hooked directly to my main computer.
Then trying to reboot the router I forgot to change the Ethernet cables back around and was getting frustrated I couldn’t access the router controls. I was factory resetting and rebooting the router, I was using my phone to try to access the system, nothing was working. I was super frustrated when Ron popped his head in the door and asked what I was doing. I explained it, then he told me his pad did not connect saying the Wi-Fi was not there. I sat there trying to explain it to him when the light bulb over my head came on. I told him to give me five minutes and he would have internet.
In trying to explain what I was doing to him after nearly 20 hours awake it dawned on me, I had failed to move the cables back to the router so I was trying to access a piece of equipment not in the loop, not connected. I quickly redid the correct cable configuration of modem to router to computers and then I accessed the now factory cleared router. I restored my security settings, all the passwords, and in about 7 minutes had the system up. I went to bed around 4 am. Tired but happy. I noticed that everything I did stopped the modem from cycling also. I got back up at 7:30 am. I am doing laundry now and will start on comments. It is going to be a long day. I still have to go into the router and bind the devices so they can’t be spoofed but I am too tired to work on it now. At least I don’t have Ron’s job of cutting out flooring around metal support beams and plumbing lines for water and sewer. Hugs.
Before I post the video, let me tell you all what is going on. My health first. I am very tired only wanting to lay in bed, sleeping or just laying there. At first I thought it was a depression thing, but when my blood work showed I was again anemic that may explain some. All I want to do when up is watch videos and I struggle to read news or do other tasks, feeling like every movement is too much and just wanting to sit here un moving. The second issue I have is I recently expanded the memory of my oldest computer, a built I like better because it is expandable. Pride go before the fall. I felt I understood the motherboard well enough and the system architecture to simple look for and buy the cheapest priced ram the system could handle.
I am humbled to admit I got my butt handed to me as after installing the cheapest four sticks equaling 64 GB of ram which is the max the system can handle I dumped and started the computer. Yes it seems all four sticks and ran at the higher speed. Grand. But then as I loaded Windows and other programs … problems happened. I got almost everything done and then had sudden BOD … the blue screen of death that I have not seen in my own systems ever. I diligently tracked every error, researched every error code and security event. What I got made me realize I had not done enough work understanding my system and the unbuffered ram.
I could make this a post on the system and what I learned. Going cheapest for me is going to cost me. I need to go back to a two stick mode with buffered memory. The reason is that the CPU can see the dual channel two stick configuration as one big stick. With four it has to run through the memory controller system to read each stick as a separate entity and compare try to manage the flow and errors of each. When the errors become too great or do an act that the system deems threatening, it shuts everything down. So I am going to spend more money on a new set of buffered 2 stick memory which should solve this issue and I can get back to being online with everyone and not spending weeks of every online time searching for and reading tech pages and specs reports. Now to the video. Love and hugs to all. Hugs
Hi Everyone. I woke up at midnight and my blogging computer wouldn’t start. Totally dead. So I went back to bed. Got up at four and took it apart. Couldn’t find a problem, so I figure it is a power supply problem, as to get it started I had to hold the power reset button and the start button at the same time. Now the trick will be to watch it and not let it shut down. The good news is I did not lose anything. I have the Vivaldi set to remember the open windows and tabs for the last three days and they can be switched between computers through sync mode. I can replace the power supply if I have to, the only problem is the case is tight for the wiring, far too many wires in a small space crossing everywhere and each other. But I have replaced them before. Hugs
Yesterday morning after not sleeping all night I wiped the hard drives and reinstall Windows from an old version of Windows 10 I have. One computer, the XPS which I just added 64 GB of ram to, seemed to be going wonderful, with no hiccups or problems. Sadly the Inspiron computer just wouldn’t install windows or other programs correctly. So last night I went to bed about 9 pm. The XPS seemed ready for finial steps. That was last night when I shut them all down.
However this morning when I went to start the computers, the XPS refused to start windows. The computer started and the bios would work but windows wouldn’t start. It seems something was preventing the boot manger from working. Even trying to reinstall windows wouldn’t let the boot manager start. In fact when I install a new version of windows and I delete the partition set up by the last installation. However it was not deleting them and as soon as I tried to reinstall the partitions would reappear. Well I was not out of tricks yet. I pulled out another older version of Windows 10 and partitioned the C drive. I could have done it with the same USB Windows install stick I had been using but I worried if there was a problem with that USB stick software. Then installed the even older version of Windows. Then I took the newer version and repeated that. Then spent an hour setting up settings. However after spending the morning doing updates and even installing some licensed programs which I do at the last as some of them have a limit to how many times they can be installed. The full stop hard wall happened that screwed everything I had done on both computers.
Well shit and damn. I have a keyboard and mouse that works on three different devices so I have my keyboard set to each computer and my phone. My mouse I set the third device to what ever third device I am working on. But during all this I couldn’t get the flow system from the company to work. That moves the mouse from monitor / computer by going to the edge of the monitor so that I had to manually change the computer via a button on the bottom of the mouse. That meant I had to pick up the mouse and use the button every time I switched computers. That is not something I can keep doing. I race between computers hundreds of times an hour. So I sat here and thought. Each computer I dumped and reloaded and did the updates for hours over the last several days. I figured out a workaround. Since I had already done clean installs, I went into settings, to recovery and set both computers to “recover Windows from the cloud”, that would reset settings that were preventing my programs from working.
Yes, yes, yes! Well it worked. It is 3 pm and I am sitting here typing on the blogging computer and watching Sam Seder on the other. Once the recovery was done I installed the Logitech program for the mouse / keyboard which worked fine. Then I installed the Norton antivirus malware, then installed my VPN, Nordvpn with its anti-malware, advance browser protection, and ad and tracker prevention. So far everything is working grand.
I am on day three with 6 hours sleep. I stopped eating yesterday morning. Yes I am tired, yes I got sick to my stomach this morning. Yes my blood sugar got too low and I had to take glucose tablets. But when I am focused on a problem food and sleep wait until I get it all fixed. So all I have to do today is install all my licensed programs and clean the computers up.
One last thing. Several days ago an elderly lady I gave a printer to because she is poor and did not have one. It is a nice brother printer that in its day was expensive but I had bought a new one and it was in my hoarder closet of electrical parts / equipment gathering dust. The printer’s computer was in error mode with an unable to clean error. Sadly that is part of the built-in obsolescence of our for-profit businesses. The error is caused due to the sponge that the print head uses to clean itself after use so ink doesn’t run all over the desk and the floor. Since they don’t bother to put a sensor in the sponge it is much easier (cheaper) for manufactures to simply put in a number of pages that will shut the machine down. Once you get to that number the “brain” in the printer assumes the sponge is full. If you know the magical steps and the correct numbers to input, you can clear the number of pages back to zero and your printer works again. And tech people can charge you big money for doing this. Sadly I did not like that game years ago and even as poor as Ron and I are, I only took donations for my skills as a technician.
So either to your joy or bad disappointment after 3 days and 6 hours of sleep and only two meals even as Ron threatened to force feed me, I am back online with my computers fully running. Oh during the time I worked on the two main computers I had the big 55 inch TV in my office on the wonderful swing arm Ron mounted running off my Xbox One and a small barely able to function laptop that I used to write most of this. Hugs and loves to all. Scottie
OK it happened again. Partly my fault, partly the tech gremlins that live in my computers. See I had 6 open windows, with many tabs each. I depend on the computer saving them. Well yesterday I was trying to pass on some stuff Kamyk wanted me to tell some of his friends. But when I went to open the program to do that it wouldn’t open it just flashed repeatedly. Nothing I could do would work including reinstalling the program would make the program work. In frustration I reset the computer only after realizing I had just lost all my saved open windows and tabs. All I can say is I was stupid to react that fast but also worried about not getting done what my friend in an ICU had asked me. So I will go open all the comments I can access and save them again. Hugs.
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