Think my board may be dead?

[stoneyyay]

Looking for a second opinion.. I went with a ryzen 7 2700x built on a gigabyte ga ax370 gaming k5 with corsair 3000mhz led ram.. I assembled everything and took it to get the bios updated to support the cpu.. I brought it home and hooked it up.. Started testing and everything was fine.. Now 4 days in and still testing I've found I have faulty memory..

Memtest86: Stick 1 passed in slot 1/3.. Stick 2 failed in ram slot 3/4. It wouldn't post in slot 1/2. I pulled stick 2 and replaced stick one in the same slot.. Thought ok.. What shit luck I'm. Having... Continued to test and about 10 mins after I thought I had it all sorted I get another bsod
And this time it stays dark.. The gpu light lights up despite known working gpus populating the live slots

So 100% I have faulty memory, but I think my board is bad as well?? The worst luck ever


Bsods were drivers(I then updated as needed) then bad irq calls, bad pool header, memory management, system pte misuse and a couple others

 

[CountMike]

Did you check manual for memory slot allocation ? For some reason Ryzen systems prefer memory in slots A2 + B2 or A2 as single.
Just switching them around is not a proper test unless they are simply dead, use https://www.memtest86.com/ to make sure. There could be many reasons for failed memory in OS and programs, not all of HW nature.

 

[stoneyyay]

The tests I obviously ran to come to the conclusion I have dead memory Is Obviously memtest86. I had already moved beyond memory being an issue. And the machine again does not even post now, and hangs with vga led lighted despite 3 known good vga cards being used.. Next time please read the whole question before trying to answer

 

[CountMike]

Next time please write everything, you didn't say anything about memtest 86 or any tests other than changing slots and it's not obvious to have used that one, there's bunch of different memory test programs.

 

[stoneyyay]

You are correct, I didn't specify I used memtest, however men test is rather ubiquitous among the pc tech world as the gold standard and default go to for 95% of the it world when it comes to testing memory.. I had specified that I had tested the memory and one stick failed.. The other passed... Faulty memory confirmed.. It was more than "swapping them around" in moving the ram around in such a fashion it also lets you test the ram slots in the board.

Anyways please don't take my reply the wrong way!! I just don't want to be sitting here talking about memory when we have already established that one stick works and this issue is with the working stick in the machine

 

[CountMike]

So what's left than ? MB or IMC in the CPU. Ti test either one you need certified good RAM stick. I already (couple of month ago) had bad out of set of 2 Corsair Vengance LPX CMK16GX4M2B3200C16R, replaced by Kingston HyperX KHX3600C17D4/8GX set of 2. that works perfectly.
Can you RMA that memory of yours ?

 

[stoneyyay]

I have already opened a ticket with corsair, and also with gigabyte.. I doubt its the cpu, I'm just pissed If this board is bad as well as the memory

 

[stoneyyay]

So to update, I have purchased a second board, and new memory, and am still getting BSODs even during install of windows, leading me to believe it is in fact the CPU that is bad (bsod I got installing windows was cache management). The CPU was also running warm even under bios (could be temp offset though, but even then 38 degrees is warm for in bios)