We can make the followings steps towards the answer of the question for locally compact rings. We begin from compact Hausdorff rings. **Theorem 1.** [War, Theorem 1] Let $A$ be a compact Hausdorff ring, and let $\mathfrak r$ be the radical of $A$. Every ideal of $A$ is closed if and only if $A$ satisfies the ascending chain condition on ideals and every principal ideal of $A$ is closed. Under these circumstances, the topology of $A$ is the $\mathfrak r$-adic topology, either $A=\mathfrak r$ or $A/\mathfrak r$ is isomorphic to the Cartesian product of a finite family of finite simple rings, and consequently there are only finitely many regular maximal, regular maximal left, or regular maximal right ideals in $A$. Moreover, there is the following structural theorem. **Theorem 2.** [War, Theorem 2] Let $A$ be a topological ring with identity, and let $\mathfrak r$ be the radical of $A$. The following conditions are equivalent. 1° $A$ is compact Hausdorff, and every left ideal of $A$ is closed. 2° $A$ is compact Hausdorff and Noetherian. 3° $A$ is compact Hausdorff and satisfies the ascending chain condition on closed left ideals. 4° $A$ is Noetherian, the topology of $A$ is the $\mathfrak r$-adic topology, $A$ is complete for that topology, $\bigcap_{n=1}^\infty \mathfrak r^n=\{0\}$, and $A/\mathfrak r$ is a finite ring. Now we proceed to locally compact rings. In [Kap] a subset $S$ of a topological ring is called *algebraically nilpotent* if for some $n$, $S^n=0$. **Theorem 3.** [Kap, Theorem 2] A locally compact ring with no algebraically nilpotent ideals is the direct sum of a connected ring and a totally disconnected ring. The former is a semi-simple algebra of finite order over the real numbers. Since Romain Gicquaud's [comment](https://mathoverflow.net/questions/454884/are-topological-pids-noetherian#comment1177754_454894) rules out the connected ring case, it remains to consider locally compact totally disconnected rings. For this case in [Kap, Lemma 4] is provided the following structural lemma. **Lemma 4.** A locally compact totally disconnected ring *A* has a system of neighborhoods of *0* which are compact open subrings. *References* [Kap] Irving Kaplansky, *[Locally compact rings](https://www.jstor.org/stable/2372343)*, Am. J. Math. **70**:2 (Apr 1948) 447-459. [War] Seth Warner, *[Compact rings](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01452361)*, Mathematische Annalen **145** (Feb 1962) 52-63.