Broken motherboard or broken ram?

Shinyguy

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Recently I have been getting BSOD sometimes for various reasons (System service exception/memory management/page fault in non paged area...). One of the things I was told to try was memtest on my ram. I used memtest86 and returned 35000 errors.

I'm using two sticks of ram so decided to take one out and then run memtest again to see which ram had the error but now my pc isn't starting, its just loading up the fans for a few seconds then shutting down again. I have tried 3 different sticks of ram in each of the four slots and am still having this issue. When I try and start without ram the same thing happens (no beep on motherboard either)

As the ram used to be working (at least most of the time) could this be a motherboard issue? Or is there anyway to ensure my ram is inserted correctly?

Motherboard:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Z77-Extreme4-Motherboard-Supports-CrossFireX/dp/B007KTY4A6

Ram is
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Corsair-CML16GX3M2A1600C10-Vengeance-Profile-Performance/dp/B007TG8QRW/ref=sr_1_2?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1399397631&sr=1-2&keywords=16gb+ram

I'm not sure what the third stick of ram is, it's only 4gb but I was using it fine before ^^ came
 
Try download and install the intel chipset driver, and the chipset will control the RAM, pcie, etc. http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/chipsets/performance-chipsets/z77-express-chipset.html
Chipset driver https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?DwnldID=20775

Also if you have other PC to test the RAM or on your friend PC, that is only way to make the RAM work or not. If the RAM works on other PC, then the problem may cause by the MB. If the RAM does not work on other PC too, that means the RAM is dead.
 

Shinyguy

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Is there anyway to update the drivers when there is nothing on screen?

I will be able to try the ram at a friends later tonight
 

Shinyguy

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Oh sorry I ran it before I removed the ram originally. As I said I've got two ram sticks and was going to run it on just one of them to find out which is broke but now my computer won't load up.