My PC is a year old, self-assembled. Ten days ago, it started crashing without BSOD, and it goes into a POST loops right away for many times before stopping. I manually start the PC, and it POST loops a couple of times before successfully loading Windows 10. I noticed that my case fan lights were reset, so I restarted again to go into BIOS, and it shows that BIOS was reset to default. I ran a memtest86 with the default 4 passes: no errors. After the memory test, I stopped suspecting the RAM. The crashes continued, I tried without my GPU, tried flashing BIOS, ran Intel Processor Diagnostics to test my CPU (passed), checked SSD health with crystaldiskinfo and Intel SSD app, and checked system files. Nobody really looked like the suspect here.
As the days went by, I noticed that the crashes were coming earlier and earlier.
The very first time it crashed, I had been using my PC for multiple hours. Recently, it crashes after not more than 10 minutes into YouTube on fHD, and nearly instantly when loading into the lobby of a game(first crash was couple of minutes into a game match). I also began to notice that it doesn't crash while watching Twitch livestreams, but will definitely crash in YouTube, and loading the lobby of a game. At this point I began to suspect the RAM.
I took out 1 stick of RAM, and I can load 30minute YouTube videos, it also doesn't crash when going into the lobby of the game. I repeated this single-stick test for the other stick, and it also appeared to be stable. I put in both sticks back, in the same slots, and the crashes came back. I switched the 2 sticks from A2 B2 to A1 B1, and the crashes remained.
To me it appears that in dual channel, my RAM can't seem to handle beyond a certain amount of stored memory and crashes, from how YouTube lasts less than 10 minutes, but Twitch seems fine, and how loading into the game lobby (the game uses up about 1800mb of memory) crashes near instantly
Single channel does not seem to crash(maybe I'm not stressing the RAM hard enough yet?). I'm not exactly sure what is wrong. I've seen a similar thread suggest that the motherboard maybe the problem, the CPU cooler maybe installed badly, or a faulty CPU. Is there any other components that could be causing these crashes?
Specs:
Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Elite rev. 1.0
I3-8350k
Gskill 2x8GB at 2666mhz
Zotac rtx 2070 mini
Cooler master 650w psu
Key points:
-Crash resets BIOS by itself
- RAM seems to crash PC after a certain amount of memory is used (only in dual channel and not in single channel)
-PC in use for one year only with minimal issues
-RAM no error in memtest86 4 passes
Really sorry for the super long post, I tried to include everything I observed since I do not have spare pc parts to isolate the problem. Thanks alot for your time!
As the days went by, I noticed that the crashes were coming earlier and earlier.
The very first time it crashed, I had been using my PC for multiple hours. Recently, it crashes after not more than 10 minutes into YouTube on fHD, and nearly instantly when loading into the lobby of a game(first crash was couple of minutes into a game match). I also began to notice that it doesn't crash while watching Twitch livestreams, but will definitely crash in YouTube, and loading the lobby of a game. At this point I began to suspect the RAM.
I took out 1 stick of RAM, and I can load 30minute YouTube videos, it also doesn't crash when going into the lobby of the game. I repeated this single-stick test for the other stick, and it also appeared to be stable. I put in both sticks back, in the same slots, and the crashes came back. I switched the 2 sticks from A2 B2 to A1 B1, and the crashes remained.
To me it appears that in dual channel, my RAM can't seem to handle beyond a certain amount of stored memory and crashes, from how YouTube lasts less than 10 minutes, but Twitch seems fine, and how loading into the game lobby (the game uses up about 1800mb of memory) crashes near instantly
Single channel does not seem to crash(maybe I'm not stressing the RAM hard enough yet?). I'm not exactly sure what is wrong. I've seen a similar thread suggest that the motherboard maybe the problem, the CPU cooler maybe installed badly, or a faulty CPU. Is there any other components that could be causing these crashes?
Specs:
Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Elite rev. 1.0
I3-8350k
Gskill 2x8GB at 2666mhz
Zotac rtx 2070 mini
Cooler master 650w psu
Key points:
-Crash resets BIOS by itself
- RAM seems to crash PC after a certain amount of memory is used (only in dual channel and not in single channel)
-PC in use for one year only with minimal issues
-RAM no error in memtest86 4 passes
Really sorry for the super long post, I tried to include everything I observed since I do not have spare pc parts to isolate the problem. Thanks alot for your time!