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All 4 sticks are dead? How did you do that? Was there a power spike or something? But then I‘d imagine more components being damaged.
PC was perfectly fine a few days ago. Played today, everything was fine at first. Played a few matches of Overwatch. After match 5 the game would crash and close out. Played HD2 and same issue, after 6 minutes in game it crashed, played Arc for 10 minutes and it crashed. Run a few RAM stress tests and got several errors. Checked each ram stick and no life on them. Not to sure what caused the ram to die at the same time. Tested each ram stick individually and no signs of life on the PC. After removing and putting the ram back in, PC won't post anymore. Not to sure what to try now.
It's more likely for one mainboard to die rather than all 4 RAM sticks at the same moment.
I was able to pin point an issue. So far 1 of the 4 ram sticks still has life. Going to see what's wrong with the 3 other ones on my buddies rig, see if he gets the same issues. So down to 8GB of Ram
If your computer boots to is your ram can't all be dead. Pull the 1st and 3rd stick out. If that doesn't work then put them back and pull the 2nd and 4th stick out. If that doesn't work, like someone else mentioned, pull and replace your cmos battery, which should also reset your bios to default. If that doesn't work use a program to do a complete uninstall of your video card drivers and do a clean install of your video card drivers. If that fails, try changing (after you research settings a bit for your mobo) ram configuration settings in your bios. If that fails it's probably your PSU or mobo. If your PSU, bios config, or mobo fail it can cause a ram stress test to fail.
Did the 2 and 4 slots, then just the 2 to narrow it down. And so far only 1 RAM stick is good. Ordered a CMOS battery so waiting on that. As a hail marry with the 1 working RAM stick. We did a clean install of Windows and made sure the BIOS was set to default. And so far my PC is running normal off the 1 stick, when putting any of the 3 other ones it boots to the blue screen of death. Gonna test the 3 other ones on my buddy's Rig and he's gonna let me out his RAM into my rig to see if I get the same issue.
Just to double check, are you putting the sticks back in their original slots, or are you trying them in the same slot?
At first the original. Then moved them around to slots 2 and 4, 1 and 3. Then just 2.
Ah, that's a shame. It's great that you've ruled it out, but it would have been nice to find something.
So worse case Scenario, running my rig on 8GB of RAM. Best case scenario the Ai bubble pops this week and RAM prices crash down.
So if you shut the computer down and swap the 1 ram stick out with any of the other ones using the same slot, it won't work? The one working stick works in any of the 4 slots?
Yeah the 1 working RAM works in every slot. The others do not. Currently testing it with my friends Rig
That makes me think your mobo or PU has to be going out. 3 ram sticks on 2 different channels can't off themselves all at once unless they were getting voltage all jacked up.
Remove/replace the cmos battery. I’ve had issues with booting to black and weird stuff because of an old battery. Worth a shot.
I also had the same issue a couple years ago. I didn't try testing the RAM because the symptoms led me to believe it was a PSU problem causing random crashes, but eventually something led me to question the CMOS battery, and replacing it fixed everything.
I don't know if it could cause memory tests to fail though.
Did you test using memtest86+? The RAM stress test while running an OS is more guided for OC rather than memory errors. And no test can guarantee problem-free RAM, only that it does have problems.
Yes! When all 4 RAM sticks were in the rig. Several errors occured. Started to test them 2 at a time still errors. Started to test 1 at a time. So far 1 stick is good 3 are bad. Gonna test all 4 RAM sticks on my buddies Rig.
Remember to ground yourself intermittently.
Odd, at standard speeds right? 2133MT/s or 2400MT/s?
Thats what u get for playing ow /s
I had an older computer where the CPU died, and it exhibited exactly these symptoms.
See if you can find someone with a compatible system, and try to swap some parts back and forth to rule out which are the broken ones. If you can find another DDR4 system and put your RAM sticks in, then you'll know whether your RAM is actually broken or not.
Sometimes a BIOS reset can also help when the system can't POST.