Question DRAM light lit up on motherboard, monitor screen black after pc being on for a night

xray559

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Hello, I ran into an issue just after last night where my monitor has a black screen, and my DRAM debug light on my motherboard is lit up.

I had my pc running overnight after reinstalling windows on a new SSD, installing a video game, and then in the morning, my pc was unresponsive and my monitor had a black screen, and my DRAM light lit up. I guessed that it was an issue with the ram giving out, so I swapped out my ram for some old ram that I upgraded from. After that, my monitor still black screened. I then reseated the ram (tried with my new ram, too)a couple more times and took out my system drive and other drives to see if my pc at least booted into bios. No luck. I'm looking into resetting the CMOS and reseating the CPU or replacing it with an older CPU later today. Help with narrowing down the issue would be greatly appreciated.

Note: My GPUs led lights are lit up when my pc is on. I don't know if that indicates the status of my GPU is "working" or not. Stating this because I've read that the GPU could also be causing the dram error.



Specs:
Computer: MSI MS-7B07
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 (Pinnacle Ridge, PiR-B2)
3400 MHz (34.00x100.0) @ 3773 MHz (37.75x100.0)
Motherboard: MSI A320M PRO-VH PLUS (MS-7B07)
BIOS: 3.I2, 05/10/2022
Chipset: AMD A320 (Promontory)
Memory: 32768 MBytes @ 1599 MHz, 16-20-20-38
  • 16384 MB PC25600 DDR4 SDRAM - Corsair CMK32GX4M2E3200C16
  • 16384 MB PC25600 DDR4 SDRAM - Corsair CMK32GX4M2E3200C16
Graphics: NVIDIA, Device ID: 2504 [PNY Technologies]
, 0 MB
Drive: ADATA SU655, 117.2 GB, Serial ATA 6Gb/s @ 6Gb/s
Drive: TOSHIBA HDWD110, 976.8 GB, Serial ATA 6Gb/s @ 6Gb/s
Drive: ADATA SU800, 500.1 GB, Serial ATA 6Gb/s @ 6Gb/s
Drive: Samsung SSD 870 EVO 1TB, 976.8 GB, Serial ATA 6Gb/s @ 6Gb/s
 
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Aug 4, 2022
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From what I have read online is that sometimes the memory controller within the CPU can fail and give the same Dram error. My guess would be mobo or cpu. The gpu lights just means there’s power going to it.