Question Red light by the CPU and Yellow by the DRAM on MSI Motherboard but POSTs

xTito

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Jul 14, 2020
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Specs: 7600x
RTX 2070 Super
DDR5 G.Skill 16 gb ram(5200 mhz)
Motherboard: MSI Pro A620M-E

Earlier it was just yellow light, But when I took out the ram and put it back in it started giving me the Red light as well.
Right now I'm thinking I might've bent the pins on the motherboard, Is there any chance of that giving me these errors?.
I have also tried changing the ram slots(2) and It still gives me the same error.

I get random bluescreen's and some games won't run at all.

One of the common blue screen I get is - "irql not less or equal"

Should I RMA the motherboard?
 
Also when I run UE4 Game's I get crashes saying "
Fatal error!

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0xffffffffffffffff
"
 
That's the RAM you purchased. Is it actually running at the speed? Did you have to set that speed (xmp or whatever AMD calls it) in the BIOS?
I enabled XMP and I was getting BSOD and now that I have disabled it I'm not getting any bluescreens anymore.

And to your other question, No I did not have to remove the CPU Cooler.
I didnt try memtest but I tried windows ram diagnostic, if thats any good. I'll definitely try memtest
 
It's not surprising you get BSODs with automatic XMP enabled. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't and you have to tweak settings manually to make the overclock work. Try relaxing the CL (CAS) value (make the number bigger).