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    [SOLVED] Orange LED, No boot w/ 2 DIMMs but boots w/ 1.

    I've seen several similar posts here but none seem to offer a solution except "sounds like you have a bad motherboard".. I'll try make this explanation as simple as possible and hopefully someone has run into this and can point me in the right direction. Issue: Will only Boot with ONE RAM...
  2. B

    [SOLVED] No display, mouse, or keyboard. Tried everything, could it be the CPU?

    Build when problem occurred: Motherboard: ASUS Prime X570-P Ryzen 3 AM4 with PCIe Gen4, Dual M.2 HDMI, SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.2 Gen 2 ATX RAM: G.SKILL Aegis 8GB 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3200 (x2) CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core, 12-Thread Unlocked Desktop Processor GPU: SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon...
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    Question DRAM light is blinking, tried everything. Help?

    Hello, I recently built my PC back in June. It worked great up until now. Couple of days ago I was playing my games and shut it down once I was done. Next day I tried to boot it up and the fans went on and the light on my gpu and motherboard were on but no display, mouse, or keyboard connection...
  4. Oxicoi

    [SOLVED] DDR4 won't go to 3200MHz, CPU LED lights up

    Not sure if this is CPU related or DDR4 related. Mobo is B550 MSI MAG Tomahawk, Ryzen 7 2700, and RAM is this: https://www.amazon.com/Corsair-CMW32GX4M2C3200C16-Vengeance-PC4-25600-Desktop/dp/B07GTG2T7L/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=ddr4+3200+corsair+32gb&qid=1604367153&sr=8-2 The CPU light on...
  5. W

    [SOLVED] Quick Question - Dram SSD or NVME

    Hi, I'm planning on building a pc in the near future, and just want some quick advice. I've done lots of research on Dram SSD's, non-Dram SSD's and NVME drives, but still don't trust my judgement entirely. Here are two links...
  6. planetpatrick

    [SOLVED] D-Ram Light on Mother Board

    D-Ram Light on mother board when i turn it on. theirs nothing showing on monitors. motherboard; asus tuf z390 gaming pro gpu; amd radeon rx 580 ram, im not sure, bit its 32gb( 2 sticks) power supply; Seasonic cor gm-650, 650 w what iv tried; iv re-seated the ram like 5 to 6 times., iv tried 1...
  7. BenSi10

    Question No display output, No DRAM LED

    Seriously I am STUMPED at this point so any help would be appreciated. I just recently replaced my MSI B350 Tomahawk with an MSI B550 Gaming Plus, and now I'm getting no visual output when I attempt to boot my machine. I've seen a number of threads suggesting this could be a DRAM problem, and...
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    Question Dramless or Dram SSD for external storage

    Hi, I'm planning to buy a 2.5 enclosure and put an SSD instead of an HDD in it. I would be using it as just a basic temporary storage, pictures, videos from my phone transferred through OTG for long trips for when my phone storage gets full. Im wondering if it's just fine going with a dramless...
  9. crazymoose77756

    Question Help I just built pc and CPU and DRAM EZ Debug light on

    So today I built my first pc: Ram: OLOy 2 8gb sticks Mobo: b450m bazooka max wifi CPU: amd ryzen 3 3100 I booted it up and the ez debug lights for cpu and dram, they are both solid white. I have taken apart my pc, checked the cpu and checked all cable connections and put it pack together. But...
  10. simton4

    [SOLVED] Can't get D.O.C.P to run at advertised speed

    Ryzen 5 3600 Asus ROG B550-F Gaming (Wi-Fi) Gskill Ripjaws 3600mhz CAS 16 Hi I was originally able to get advertised ram speed by enabling D.O.C.P overclock tuner profile which had DRAM voltage at 1.35V. However, after unplugging PC while running it wont post with these settings. It now runs at...
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    Question New Builder! Having issues getting a post (Led debug has DRAM light on.)

    Okay so here's my build: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/YYFxDx pretty much I've been dealing with an ongoing issue for the last 3 months. trying to get a boot. At first I thought it was the powere supply. Then I thought it was the mother board (3 motherboards later). But this time I made sure...
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    Question New Ryzen 5 3600 dead or am I missing something?

    Hello This is going to be a super long post so please bear with me. Recently I upgraded from a Ryzen 5 1600 to a Ryzen 5 3600 as my motherboard was the MSI B450 gaming plus, I upgraded the bios before swapping out the 1600 for the 3600. On first try the system refused to boot in dual channel so...
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    [SOLVED] Can extra dram cause window blue crash screen

    Just got a new skytech pc, with 16gb of ram. I do some data science type work so I like to have 32. I bought the same manufacturer ram, almost exact same specifications but with the extra 2 sticks of ram installed I cant run windows for more than a few minutes without crashing/blue screen of...
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    Question B450 Aorus M crash after windows startup, debug lights show CPU and dram LEDs

    So my PC has been working fine for the past year and I've been using it for a long time. One day while I'm playing with my friends my PC crashes out of nowhere and since then has been crashing moments after a boot into windows. When it does it shows the debug lights as DRAM ~3 seconds and then...
  15. Bumosi

    Question Dram Light On, no Boot

    Hey everyone first timer here, I was having no issues with my computer until yesterday. I got a Seagate Firecuda 520 1tb in preparation for cyberpunk 2077 as a gift from my wife. I installed it on my second M.2 slot, and fired up the computer. Since then I keep getting no Boot, Dram yellow light...
  16. jsdavis

    Question Asus ROG Strix 450-F Gaming Yellow Light

    Good day, I ask for your support, I have a problem with the asus B450-f gaming, everything seems to be working fine, but when it is off for several hours and if I want to turn on it does not go past the yellow LED, I press restart and it already works correctly, what could it be? I have...
  17. ChaosEnsues

    Question My pc is not working right

    So I have a i5 9400f and 16 of Corsair ram vengeance ddr4 ram and a gigabyte Z390 UD motherboard and a rx 580 8gb and the thing is that my pc goes to the dram for the light then goes to change light then back to cpu then my system doesn’t post or anything ?!! Can someone help me
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    Question installed crucial storage executive software and enabled momentum cache and my sytem failing to reboot since then

    hi, my cpu i5-4670k, gpu - zotac 1050ti mini, mobo- gigabyte z87x-ud3h, bios version F10b, psu corsair cs650m , ram 4x4gb @1600 mhz, MX 500 500gb ssd, WD 1TB sata internal hdd, AHCI,windows10, running UEFI and secure boot, MY SSD in GPT but my HDD in MBR, CSM is disabled. i just clean installed...
  19. Sa1Ko

    [SOLVED] dram voltage for 4 sticks of ram

    Hello everyone. i had 2x8 gskill tridentz gtzrx 3600mhz on my pc and i recently added two more of the exact same model. xmp recognizes the new ones perfectly. Now all 4 are at 3600mhz but i experience some random restarts only when gaming. My question is this: should i upper the dram voltage...
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    [SOLVED] Losing my mind over this PC, can somebody PLEASE give me an insight into whats wrong??

    PC Specs: MB: Asus B250F STRIX CPU: i7 6700k GPU: Gigabyte Nvidia GTX 2060 6gb RAM: 2x8gb Corsair Vengeance PSU: Corsair 650w 80 PLUS SSD: 500gb Kingston HDD: WD Blue 1TB Around 1 year ago, maybe more, a can of soda was spilled into my pc by accident from the top (I know, very dumb but a...
  21. Corwin S

    [SOLVED] G.Skill RipJaw DDR3 X-2400 16GB (8x2) 11-13-13-31 speed -- boot errors

    Hi there. I'm having issues related to booting and rebooting Windows when I try to manually adjust my DRAM timings. I am currently using four G.Skill Ripjaw X DDR3-2400 8GB sticks. The timing profiles are 11-13-13-31. In BIOS, everything runs fine in "Auto Mode", but with "Auto Mode" my DRAM...
  22. N

    [SOLVED] Mixing ram kits

    I currently have 2x4gb of Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 2400 DDR4, https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-Ballistix-Desktop-Gaming-BLS2K4G4D240FSB/dp/B00UFF7Y72?th=1. It has 16-16-16 timing with a voltage of 1.2V. I am looking to upgrade my RAM, but the identical model of my current RAM is currently...
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    [SOLVED] Question bout SanDisk SSD PLUS 1TB

    Hello everyone, I know I never post here but, I want to ask to the community: Is the SanDisk SSD PLUS 1TB a Dram drive or a Dram-less drive? If anyone can help me with this I will really appreciate. Thank you.
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    Question Just bought some new Corsair Vengeance 32GB Kits...

    As above stated I got some new 32GB kits of corsair vengeance rgb kits.. I turned system off unplugged power. Removed my current GSkill kits and replaced with the new kits. my mother board b450 tomahawk max , cpu ryzen 2600x .. anyways I took the old kits out and replaced with the new. my...
  25. PatrikVujicic

    Question DDR4 3200mhz not working on dram ratio 100:100, but works on 100:133. Why?

    Hello there. Need your help good people. Few days ago I bought new DDR4 Ram from G.skill TridentZ model. Its XMP profile is on 3200mhz with CL14. So why can't I use dram ratio of 100:100 with 3200mhz speed? I can use only 2800mhz on 100:100. 100:133 ratio allows speeds over 3200mhz. On 100:100...
  26. Hertzzz

    Question Computer turns on then off and debug shows cpu and dram

    I just bought an i7-9700k, a 750x PSU and a 2060 super, and my pc turns on and switches between the cpu and dram light on my debug and then shuts off. It repeats this over and over and doesn’t stop. I have a Gigabyte z390 gaming x. Any suggestions?
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    [SOLVED] PC won’t post and DRAM light on

    So I built my computer on around Black Friday and it worked well for about a month and it suddenly stopped working? My computer showed no signs of anything failing and everything seemed to be working fine but the pc just wouldn’t post or anything, it would just turn on. So I figured it was the...
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    [SOLVED] RAM - half speed, half size, half mental issues.

    Hello, I have had recently many tough times with RAM, now I have bought a new HX432C16PB3K2/32 - the specs of this baby are such: 3200MHz, 32 GB, CL-16. Once I first plugged them in (right after clearing CMOS because I was testing the other RAM before which did not work and took a lot out of my...
  29. Korican64

    Question Dram amber light on mobo

    So my computer wont post and is stuck on a black screen. On my mobo, the dram led is lit amber and wont go away. I overclocked my ram to 3200 w/ xmp. I did not mess with any other settings in the bios. When I played escape from tarkov and streamed at the same time, that's when my computer...
  30. dadashali

    [SOLVED] Dram-less NVME or Dram SATA SSD

    It's about Lexar NM610 500GB and Samsung 860 EVO 500GB. I'm a gamer (multi ran games at same time) and a home user with around 18 hours of mixed content usage. Really I can't choose between these to. I must mention that I don't have 4K VGA or monitor (for now) so that part is not my matter. Only...
  31. scoutsam22

    Question Asus m5a99x won't post with gtx 1070

    I have a system that I was gifted from a neighbor that has been giving me some trouble. The original system was; Asus m5a99x R.2, a fx 8350, 12gb of ram, and a gt 610. In this configuration the system booted fine (unless one of the tpu/epu switches was in the wrong spot) I could get into the...
  32. B

    [SOLVED] Computer not starting.

    This story starts with me buying a 8 GB ram stick from a friend, and he asked me beforehand if I had the same DDR and frequency, and they indeed were the same (specs at the end). After putting the stick in DIMM1 of my motherboard, it kept giving me "Read disk error" and "Reboot and Insert proper...
  33. rzm_sikorsky

    Question can i mix different DRAM memory speeds?

    Hi I have 3 DRAM sticks, two of them run @ 3000MHz C15 (dual-channel config) and one runs @ 2400MHz C15. So now maximum speed my memories can reach is 2400? should I replace 2400MHz one with 3000MHz sticks to accelerate speed? and what happens if I use sticks with same speed but different...
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    Question [SOLVED] Crosshair VII Hero Q LED always yellow (DRAM), but computer works normally

    New build using the asus Crosshair VII Hero Wi-Fi. The board has the nifty numerical display at the top right, with four LEDs directly below it with different colors/meanings. In videos I've seen of this board working properly, on boot it cycles through those colored LEDs. Mine does not do...
  35. J

    Question PC No Longer Boots After BIOS Update

    System: CPU - Ryzen 3 1200 MOBO - MSI B350M Gaming Pro DRAM - G.Skill TridentZ RGB 3000MHZ (2×8, 16-18-18-38 @ 1.35v) GPU - GTX 1060 3 GB BOOT DRIVE - WD Blue 1T Today, I decided to update my motherboard's BIOS to the newest version. I followed all the normal steps (download, unzip to flash...
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    Question Mixing and matching memory modules: Two sets of 2 vs one set of 4 memory modules

    I am wondering, if there is some performance and/or compatibility issue or difference between use of 2 sets of 2 memory modules and/or one set of 4 memory modules. To be more specific, my motherboard is the ASUS Prime X299-Deluxe II (LGA2066, Intel Core X-Series), the processor is the Intel...
  37. J

    Question Corsair Vengeance LPX - Selection Advise

    I am about to build a kinda powerful desktop PC and I need an advise how to pick a memory for the ASUS Prime X299-Deluxe II motherboard (LGA2066, Intel Core X-Series). Since I decided to go with Intel i9-9900X processor, and I am against liquid cooling, I need an excellent air cooler for my CPU...
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    Question Did I Ruin my RAM?

    Ok here's a long one, I'm posting because I'm at my witts end. I built this PC about 2 months ago. It worked, but I still had some issues like rendering device lost-while playing overwatch and recording on OBS. So last night I updated my graphics card drivers and motherboard. I Ran performance...
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    [SOLVED] Can't get my RAM to it's maximum frequency

    Hi guys, I just recently built a new PC and everything is working fine but when I enabled my X.M.P my ram only went to 1600 frequency even though it says in the BIOS 3200. I've tried changing it from auto to 3200 Frequency but it still has no affect. I've checked my motherboards supported...
  40. Lostorm

    Question Newly built PC random freezes (DRAM led)

    So I just built my PC the other day. After installing windows, my graphics driver, and beginning to install/download other programs the PC screen froze on whatever picture I was on and my keyboard and mouse shut off. The led on all my pc parts are still on and the fans are still spinning, the...