GobbleDog 816 Posted December 1, 2020 Built a pooter about a year+ ago... (Ryzen 3800 - Radeon 5700XT - 16 gb RAM in two sticks). Worked great for a while, then about 6 months ago it would occasionally crash resulting in the blue screen with Windows saying it was gathering info... the error code varied wildly. I ignored it as it only happened every great once in a while. But over the past week the computer started crashing 10+ times a day. Clearly a problem. So I tried everything... uninstalling/reinstalling drivers, virus scans, nothing helped. Finally I gave up and decided to just reinstall Windows thinking I must've picked up a nasty virus from sports streaming/ movie streaming/ porn sites. So I formatted the hard drive and started the reinstall.... no dice, got a weird error code half-way through. Tried a different USB stick, different USB port, different SATA ports, etc. Kept getting the error. Finally, after watching endless Youtubes about what the weird error code is while installing Windows, I noticed in the comments someone said "I took out one RAM stick and it worked". Then I read another comment saying the same, and then another. I figured what the hell, I'm out of ideas. Well, it worked. After I got Windows installed I put the old RAM stick back in and.... it quickly crashed. Even tried different RAM slots. Nope. So, I'm down to 8 gigs for the time being. I've built 4 computers and I've never seen a RAM stick just die. I don't even over-clock. In case your wondering it was GSkill Ripjaws 16gb kit at 3600 frequency. https://www.newegg.com/g-skill-16gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N82E16820232880 Never again GSkill Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DonS 3,066 Posted December 1, 2020 No, but I thought my stick was going to die after I RAMMED it up your mom's ass. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Strike 3,956 Posted December 1, 2020 Happens but it's rare. I wouldn't hold it against a company if it happened just once. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MTSkiBum 1,593 Posted December 1, 2020 Dead on arrival is more common with ram in my opinion, usually if it starts out working then it usually stays working. Always good to do a fresh install of windows though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GobbleDog 816 Posted December 1, 2020 4 minutes ago, MTSkiBum said: Dead on arrival is more common with ram in my opinion, usually if it starts out working then it usually stays working. That's what is so perplexing. Worked fine for 6+ months and progressively got worse with more and more crashes. All I can fathom is perhaps a voltage surge - that for whatever reason only screwed up one stick of ram.?. Who knows. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DonS 3,066 Posted December 1, 2020 Just now, frank said: Ahh. The sad Rob Halford mullet years. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kilroy69 993 Posted December 1, 2020 Yea but she was not really that pretty and I didn't really care. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cloaca du jour 2,064 Posted December 1, 2020 1 hour ago, GobbleDog said: That's what is so perplexing. Worked fine for 6+ months and progressively got worse with more and more crashes. All I can fathom is perhaps a voltage surge - that for whatever reason only screwed up one stick of ram.?. Who knows. Probably a weakpoint and as it gets hot something goes bad Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Drizzay 645 Posted December 1, 2020 Yea, when I did my first build. I thought I did something wrong. Turns out it was just a bad stick. Exchanged them at the store and everything was fine. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iam90sbaby 2,122 Posted December 1, 2020 Never had a ram problem till I switched to Ryzen. Had to disable XMP or it would go through an endless bootcycle, once I turned it off I never another problem. Pretty sure XMP fried one of my sticks. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
