I have a 6500 cpu, Asus b150 motherboard, and 2x 8gb DDR4 memory.
I was playing a game when all of a sudden my system crashes and windows would not boot at all. It would be stuck at the Asus/Zotac screen stuck at preparing automatic repair.
I made a bootable windows 10 usb that took to the blue windows logo with black background but would not go further than that.
I read somewhere about memory being bad so I removed one of my ram sticks and windows began to install correctly.
After windows installed correctly I decided to reinstall the ram i removed into the A1B1 slot and wouldnt load. I then tried the A1A2 slot and wouldnt work again. Then I tried to load with only the ram I removed earlier and would give me the preparing automatic repair screen again.
I believe that the ram I removed has failed but the Bios can correctly read both ram sticks.
Is it possible that one of my ram sticks failed while I was using my computer? Do I have to purchase a new stick of ram? Is there any method to check if that ram stick is the only issue?
If anybody could help I would appreciate it. Thanks!
I was playing a game when all of a sudden my system crashes and windows would not boot at all. It would be stuck at the Asus/Zotac screen stuck at preparing automatic repair.
I made a bootable windows 10 usb that took to the blue windows logo with black background but would not go further than that.
I read somewhere about memory being bad so I removed one of my ram sticks and windows began to install correctly.
After windows installed correctly I decided to reinstall the ram i removed into the A1B1 slot and wouldnt load. I then tried the A1A2 slot and wouldnt work again. Then I tried to load with only the ram I removed earlier and would give me the preparing automatic repair screen again.
I believe that the ram I removed has failed but the Bios can correctly read both ram sticks.
Is it possible that one of my ram sticks failed while I was using my computer? Do I have to purchase a new stick of ram? Is there any method to check if that ram stick is the only issue?
If anybody could help I would appreciate it. Thanks!