PC Freezing and no signal with 4 sticks of RAM. Requires full restart, keyboard unresponsive.

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Hi everyone,

so ive had this problem for about a month now and I have no clue whats going on,

for starters, with 4 sticks of ram which ive had for a while, the pc turns on but theres no signal to the monitor and then it restarts after about a minute. Once i take out 1 ram stick or 2 it boots up fine but still has the problem of freezing which i will go on to in a minute.

Now, I know what youre thinking, one of the ram sticks is faulty. Ive tried every ram stick individually in every slot and they all work fine, apart from when they are all together.

the freezing usually occurs while gaming but can happen whenever and has happened when im doing MEMTEST. when this happens everything freezes requiring a forced restart, everything is unresponsive, yet all the lights and fans stay on.

SPECS:

GPU: Geforce GTX 1070

CPU: i5 6600k

RAM: 4x4GB HyperX fury 1866Mhz

PSU: Corsair 600W

Motherboard: Gigabyte H170 HD3 DDR3

I have:

Completely uninstalled the test server from my files

System restored to the 16th December

Removed RAM and put it back in in different order and restarted which actually makes the computer last longer before a freeze

Uninstalled GPU drivers and reinstalled.

Updated BIOS

Formatted HDD

Temps are fine with the CPU

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Another thing I have done which has made me confident it is the motherboard or the RAM compatibility with the CPU is that I have taken a different MOBO and CPU and plugged it and EVERYTHING IS FINE -- So the only thing I have changed is the amount of RAM, the CPU, and the MOBO, so not the PSU, HDD, COOLER ETC.


I hope someone can help

Thanks, Harry
 
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None of the ram sticks is faulty. Intel specified that DDR3L is compatible and can be used in such DDR3 motherboards. Your issue is the fact you're trying to run 4 sticks of full DDR3 at full voltage which is beyond what that CPU's memory controller can handle. I'm sure it probably booted and maybe worked for a while, but over time that excess voltage may have damaged the memory controller on your CPU. Did it ever properly boot/run with 4 DDR3 sticks?

I will say this is not completely your fault, as the motherboard manufacturers didn't do enough IMO to warn about this issue, when selling DDR3 boards.
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None of the ram sticks is faulty. Intel specified that DDR3L is compatible and can be used in such DDR3 motherboards. Your issue is the fact you're trying to run 4 sticks of full DDR3 at full voltage which is beyond what that CPU's memory controller can handle. I'm sure it probably booted and maybe worked for a while, but over time that excess voltage may have damaged the memory controller on your CPU. Did it ever properly boot/run with 4 DDR3 sticks?

I will say this is not completely your fault, as the motherboard manufacturers didn't do enough IMO to warn about this issue, when selling DDR3 boards.
 
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Hey, thanks for replying, thats what i was thinking,

is it too late?

as in can i order a ddr4 mobo and ddr4 ram and will it work fine again?

 
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If it never really worked then I would say its unlikely you damaged the CPU, did it work/run? Or is this a new experiment you are trying with 4 sticks and can't get it to work.

SO yeah then if you were never really running it like that then you should be able to put in a DDR4 board and ram and it would work fine.
 
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Yeah it did work for a time, I've had 4 sticks (4x4gb, 16gb) since 8 August 2017, until mid december.
 
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So I'd go with maybe as in if anything is damaged. Unfortunately you said even with 2 sticks you have a freezing problem. That could be a sign its busted.

BUT in this case anyway you need a new motherboard and ram, so its worth buying just that and trying it out. If it works, you're golden. If not, then time for a CPU too.
 
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Okay, ive already ordered a new mobo and 2 sticks 4gb ram ddr4 to try out, thanks so much for the help, you are literally the only person who managed to answer this, ive created multiple threads.

Hopefully, it will be okay and hopefully it's just a problem with ddr3 regardless of how much ram now and not permanent,

Thanks
 
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Oh, one more thing,

I did an INTEL Diagnostic Test and it came out as PASS on everything,

would memory controller not be included in the test?
 
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It is included so thats a good thing. Its likely still within spec so thats good, but still it never should have been used with that Memory like that. This means for you it will likely work fine with the new board and ram.

Also make sure you reinstall windows when you swap out the board.
 
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