- Jun 5, 2016
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Hello,
I have been experiencing a strange problem. Earlier, I was playing a heavily modded version of Fallout 4. One of the mods was ENBoost, which forces the game to utilize DRAM when my VRAM isn't enough. Suddenly the game perma-froze so I had to hard shut off my PC. When I turned it back on, monitor stayed black (no signal) and a red DRAM LED light came on on my motherboard.
My motherboard has 4 memory slots, in this order: A1, A2, B1, B2. I have 2 sticks of 4GB/each memory for a total of 8GB DDR3. I have been using them for years. My motherboard recommends with 2 sticks to use either A1 & B1 or A2 & B2.
Anyway, to troubleshoot, I began switching around memory. First, I took them out of A1B1 and reinserted in same slots. No fix. Then I stuck them in A2B2. No fix.
Then I grabbed a single 8GB stick out of my brother's PC, stuck it in B1, and the PC booted right up. So my first thought was that either one of my sticks is bad or one of the slots in bad. So I took out my brother's stick from B1 and stuck one of mine into B1. PC booted up. Then I tried the other stick. PC booted up again! So I thought, huh, the sticks are good so the mobo slots A1 and A2 must be bad. Well, I stuck my brother's stick into A1 and A2 and PC booted up both times just fine.
So I honestly have no idea what the problem is. I can use a single one of my sticks just fine, it seems, but when I try to insert both, the monitor stays black and I get a red DRAM LED light on the mobo. Any idea what the issue is? Thanks in advance.
NOTE:
I also tried loosing and tightening screws on my motherboard. Didn't help.
Earlier this week, I upgraded my GPU to a EVGA Geforce GTX 960
Also earlier this week, a thunderstorm knocked out the power while I was using my PC. No direct issues from it, but may be related to this.
My hardware (growing in years):
Motherboard ASUS M4A88TD-M
DRAM G.SKILL Ripjaws X-series DDR3-1333 (2x4GB)
UPDATE:
Just stuck my sticks back into original spots A1B1 and PC turned on. Typing this as we speak with them in those slots. So now I'm more confused than ever lol.
UPDATE2:
Shortly after posting last update, my PC froze again with sticks in original spots.
I have been experiencing a strange problem. Earlier, I was playing a heavily modded version of Fallout 4. One of the mods was ENBoost, which forces the game to utilize DRAM when my VRAM isn't enough. Suddenly the game perma-froze so I had to hard shut off my PC. When I turned it back on, monitor stayed black (no signal) and a red DRAM LED light came on on my motherboard.
My motherboard has 4 memory slots, in this order: A1, A2, B1, B2. I have 2 sticks of 4GB/each memory for a total of 8GB DDR3. I have been using them for years. My motherboard recommends with 2 sticks to use either A1 & B1 or A2 & B2.
Anyway, to troubleshoot, I began switching around memory. First, I took them out of A1B1 and reinserted in same slots. No fix. Then I stuck them in A2B2. No fix.
Then I grabbed a single 8GB stick out of my brother's PC, stuck it in B1, and the PC booted right up. So my first thought was that either one of my sticks is bad or one of the slots in bad. So I took out my brother's stick from B1 and stuck one of mine into B1. PC booted up. Then I tried the other stick. PC booted up again! So I thought, huh, the sticks are good so the mobo slots A1 and A2 must be bad. Well, I stuck my brother's stick into A1 and A2 and PC booted up both times just fine.
So I honestly have no idea what the problem is. I can use a single one of my sticks just fine, it seems, but when I try to insert both, the monitor stays black and I get a red DRAM LED light on the mobo. Any idea what the issue is? Thanks in advance.
NOTE:
I also tried loosing and tightening screws on my motherboard. Didn't help.
Earlier this week, I upgraded my GPU to a EVGA Geforce GTX 960
Also earlier this week, a thunderstorm knocked out the power while I was using my PC. No direct issues from it, but may be related to this.
My hardware (growing in years):
Motherboard ASUS M4A88TD-M
DRAM G.SKILL Ripjaws X-series DDR3-1333 (2x4GB)
UPDATE:
Just stuck my sticks back into original spots A1B1 and PC turned on. Typing this as we speak with them in those slots. So now I'm more confused than ever lol.
UPDATE2:
Shortly after posting last update, my PC froze again with sticks in original spots.
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