Gigabyte GA-A320m-s2h rev 1.x
AMD Ryzen 3 3200G 3.6ghz w/on board graphic chip
NVIDIA QUADRO FX 3800 graphics card
G.Skill FlareX DDR4 3200 8GB’s each (2 total )
Power supply: Corsair CX430 Model 001666
Win10 64bit
While watching a You Tube video my desktop crashed into plain blue screens and the only way to shut it down was to turn off the main power. On trying to power it back up, no reboot/POST, fans came on running really fast, and stayed that way. On a normal boot up they come on fast then slow the minute the system begins to boot. Again the only way to turn it off was the main power button, holding the on/off had no effect. So I pulled the vid card and ran one monitor straight to the mother board and again no boot. Next I pulled one stick of RAM and it booted right back up. Pulled that stick out and put the other one in and back to no boot. Moved that same stick to the other slot and still nothing. Put the “good” stick back in and put my video card in and everything runs fine. To test things, I moved the good stick to the other slot just to see what would happen and it worked fine.
I then updated my BIOS to the latest and that didn’t help. I pulled the battery to reset the CMOS, still only the one stick would work. Thinking I had one bad module, I borrowed 3 matching sets (6 sticks) of DDR4 Ram and tried them single, double and every combination you can do and again no attempt to boot up. I put the one working stick in and back to working perfect.
This seems very odd that only one stick of RAM will allow my desktop to function now. I’m baffled. This system has been running perfect for 3 years.
AMD Ryzen 3 3200G 3.6ghz w/on board graphic chip
NVIDIA QUADRO FX 3800 graphics card
G.Skill FlareX DDR4 3200 8GB’s each (2 total )
Power supply: Corsair CX430 Model 001666
Win10 64bit
While watching a You Tube video my desktop crashed into plain blue screens and the only way to shut it down was to turn off the main power. On trying to power it back up, no reboot/POST, fans came on running really fast, and stayed that way. On a normal boot up they come on fast then slow the minute the system begins to boot. Again the only way to turn it off was the main power button, holding the on/off had no effect. So I pulled the vid card and ran one monitor straight to the mother board and again no boot. Next I pulled one stick of RAM and it booted right back up. Pulled that stick out and put the other one in and back to no boot. Moved that same stick to the other slot and still nothing. Put the “good” stick back in and put my video card in and everything runs fine. To test things, I moved the good stick to the other slot just to see what would happen and it worked fine.
I then updated my BIOS to the latest and that didn’t help. I pulled the battery to reset the CMOS, still only the one stick would work. Thinking I had one bad module, I borrowed 3 matching sets (6 sticks) of DDR4 Ram and tried them single, double and every combination you can do and again no attempt to boot up. I put the one working stick in and back to working perfect.
This seems very odd that only one stick of RAM will allow my desktop to function now. I’m baffled. This system has been running perfect for 3 years.
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