Hi All,
New to this forum and PC building in general. 12 months ago I built a PC which I have used as a workstation (architectural design). This week I began getting BSODs and automatic restarts. Eventually they were so frequent I was unable to even log in. On occasions after powering on nothing happened - no screen, no BSODs, nothing.
After searching some of the codes it appeared to be a memory problem. I don't have another PC or other components on hand to swap stuff out (I live in fairly remote spot in Costa Rica - to get PC parts is a 2 day planned trip).
On a hunch (I don't why I did this) I removed 1 of my 2 ram sticks and everything started working again. This was a relief as I was working towards a deadline and needed to crack on. Now the deadline has been met I am trying to figure out what has happened and what I need to look at replacing or fixing. So the PC was running fine on one stick in one slot. To see if it was the ram stick or the slot that was broken I swapped the 2 sticks over (still only 1 in) and the PC works fine - I thought ah ok it must be the slot and probably would require a repair or a new MB. Out of curiosity I put 2 sticks back in to try and generate the BSOD codes again. Now the PC has the same 2 sticks of ram in the same 2 slots and it is working fine. This is the same configuration it had when it repeatedly crashed all day earlier in the week.
This is great that it is working again however I am nervous that it will only be a matter of time before I get BSODs again. I am wondering if anyone has any suggestions as to what may have caused this, what I can do to pin point the problem and how I can prevent this happening again?
My components are as follows (everything is at stock settings I have never overclocked anything):
intel i5-10400 (stock cooler)
2x T-Force Delta RGB 8gb DDR4 2666
ASUS Prime X490P
ASRock Challenger AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT
Corsair CV650
2xADATA Swordfish M.2 2280PCIe Gen3x4 SSD 500GB
NZXT H510 Case
All drivers and BIOS are up to date
Windows 10 Pro
27inch Samsung Monitor
Thank you for taking the time to read and any comments are much appreciated.
Tom
New to this forum and PC building in general. 12 months ago I built a PC which I have used as a workstation (architectural design). This week I began getting BSODs and automatic restarts. Eventually they were so frequent I was unable to even log in. On occasions after powering on nothing happened - no screen, no BSODs, nothing.
After searching some of the codes it appeared to be a memory problem. I don't have another PC or other components on hand to swap stuff out (I live in fairly remote spot in Costa Rica - to get PC parts is a 2 day planned trip).
On a hunch (I don't why I did this) I removed 1 of my 2 ram sticks and everything started working again. This was a relief as I was working towards a deadline and needed to crack on. Now the deadline has been met I am trying to figure out what has happened and what I need to look at replacing or fixing. So the PC was running fine on one stick in one slot. To see if it was the ram stick or the slot that was broken I swapped the 2 sticks over (still only 1 in) and the PC works fine - I thought ah ok it must be the slot and probably would require a repair or a new MB. Out of curiosity I put 2 sticks back in to try and generate the BSOD codes again. Now the PC has the same 2 sticks of ram in the same 2 slots and it is working fine. This is the same configuration it had when it repeatedly crashed all day earlier in the week.
This is great that it is working again however I am nervous that it will only be a matter of time before I get BSODs again. I am wondering if anyone has any suggestions as to what may have caused this, what I can do to pin point the problem and how I can prevent this happening again?
My components are as follows (everything is at stock settings I have never overclocked anything):
intel i5-10400 (stock cooler)
2x T-Force Delta RGB 8gb DDR4 2666
ASUS Prime X490P
ASRock Challenger AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT
Corsair CV650
2xADATA Swordfish M.2 2280PCIe Gen3x4 SSD 500GB
NZXT H510 Case
All drivers and BIOS are up to date
Windows 10 Pro
27inch Samsung Monitor
Thank you for taking the time to read and any comments are much appreciated.
Tom
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