- Jun 23, 2016
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Hello,
I have had my custom built PC for about 2 years now. Motherboard: asrock z77 extreme4, i5-3570k quad core processor, Gskill sniper 4gb RAM x 2. Last winter it would get the blue screen and it would intermittently started to cycle on and off until I forced shutdown. I discovered that one of the wireless card screws had fallen off so half the card was free floating inside...yikes. I remedied that but I kept getting an error 55 code which meant memory not installed in the manual. I would just swap the RAM to different slots and it would work but the cycling would still happen, most often while gaming but this went away and I haven't been gaming as much. Fast forward to two weeks ago. The cycling has been happening again while I was playing a game and got the blue error screen and the cycling started. Tried swapping the RAM to different slots, and it worked -- was able to start normally. I think I ruled out it being the RAM since I've tried each RAM card by itself in all the slots, and I know which slots cause the 55 error by now and regardless of the card, I still get the 55 error based on the slot the card is in. I've done researching on these forums and have found previous reports of people with the same motherboard having bent pins. I looked at mine and didn't find any evidence of bent pins that I could see. Right now, my computer works with a single 4gb RAM in and my question is do you have any recommendations on where to go from here? Do I just buy a new motherboard? Could I get by just buying an 8gb RAM and using it in the last "good" slot? Any other ideas? Thank you
I have had my custom built PC for about 2 years now. Motherboard: asrock z77 extreme4, i5-3570k quad core processor, Gskill sniper 4gb RAM x 2. Last winter it would get the blue screen and it would intermittently started to cycle on and off until I forced shutdown. I discovered that one of the wireless card screws had fallen off so half the card was free floating inside...yikes. I remedied that but I kept getting an error 55 code which meant memory not installed in the manual. I would just swap the RAM to different slots and it would work but the cycling would still happen, most often while gaming but this went away and I haven't been gaming as much. Fast forward to two weeks ago. The cycling has been happening again while I was playing a game and got the blue error screen and the cycling started. Tried swapping the RAM to different slots, and it worked -- was able to start normally. I think I ruled out it being the RAM since I've tried each RAM card by itself in all the slots, and I know which slots cause the 55 error by now and regardless of the card, I still get the 55 error based on the slot the card is in. I've done researching on these forums and have found previous reports of people with the same motherboard having bent pins. I looked at mine and didn't find any evidence of bent pins that I could see. Right now, my computer works with a single 4gb RAM in and my question is do you have any recommendations on where to go from here? Do I just buy a new motherboard? Could I get by just buying an 8gb RAM and using it in the last "good" slot? Any other ideas? Thank you
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