can my ram effect bios lockup and cause CPU underclock

sliferxi · Aug 10, 2014

I have and amd 8350 and ripjaws gskill ram problem is I'm pretty sure both ram sticks are either dead or dying (crash on restart boot up or shut down) 3 beeps on an as rock mono confirms plus tried moving to different dimm slot's for conformation and I was not wrong, again it would boot half the time when it didn't it was a black screen with no video running through the GPU. When I'm in my bios I can stay there for maybe 5 minutes before it freezes, I can still move my mouse but I cant click anything. When I'm in my desktop everything seems fine until I check my CPU clock even with thermal throttling and C&Q turned off while under load my CPU was determined to stay at 1.3ghz i was running prime95 to see if cpu-z or hardware monitor would budge and to my disappointment it didn't. so I guess my main question is can bad ram cause all these problems because I wanna be sure its the ram before I buy new parts. I scowerd the webs to see if any one had the same effects I found nothing.

Darkbreeze · Aug 11, 2014

Can you get into the BIOS still? If so, go in the BIOS and find the option to reset bios to default settings. After that, try it again. If you have the same problem, try one stick of RAM a time and in different slots to see if it's a single module causing the issue or both modules, or neither. Let me know. You might download and run memtest86+ if you have another computer or can manage to download with yours.

sliferxi · Aug 11, 2014

Damn it I can't reply to you on mobile but I already tried to test it by doing one at a time but the problem still happens I'll try running memtest next

Darkbreeze · Aug 11, 2014

What kind of BIOS do you have? AMI, Phoenix, etc? What is your motherboard model?

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