Last week my computer just froze when I was gaming. I thought nothing of it really and restarted and after that my computer has been freezing and crashing a ton after. First it started out with BSoDs with some varying errors and later on I just got freezing or black screen, even in BIOS on two occasions, Turns out now after some more testing that neither the A1 or A2 DIMM slots work. I've tried both of my RAM sticks separately in each DIMM slot and when I have a stick in either B1, B2 or both at the same time my computer boots and works fine.
The strange thing is that I haven't even opened my computer in a long while, this problem came out of the blue. I don't see how a pin on my CPU could just suddenly get bent or anything like that since I haven't reseated my CPU or heatsink since I installed them in the first place which was just barely a year ago. I have made sure all screws on my motherboard and heatsink are tightened properly. I screwed all the screws softly (like finger tight) and then just a tiny bit more.
The strange thing is that I haven't even opened my computer in a long while, this problem came out of the blue. I don't see how a pin on my CPU could just suddenly get bent or anything like that since I haven't reseated my CPU or heatsink since I installed them in the first place which was just barely a year ago. I have made sure all screws on my motherboard and heatsink are tightened properly. I screwed all the screws softly (like finger tight) and then just a tiny bit more.