Small can of air duster got knocked off shelf and onto my computer and it froze. This has happened sometimes when I slap the top of the computer because of the fan noise sometimes but I always turn it off and once reboot it’s all good. This time was very different.
At first it wouldn’t even boot up, would make a very weird loud grinding noise then shut off then loop. Waited few min and tried again and it booted but no screen, motherboard light indicators flashing back and forth between cpu and memory. Did a google search and someone else had same problem recommended ram in slots 1 and 2. Did it and it thankfully worked.. so everything running fine for now.
I’m just confused what happened and why slapping the top of the computer or something falling on it, sometimes only, will cause the pc to freeze and need reboot. My cat will jump on it sometimes and nothing happens and I’m sure he weighs more than air blaster can. Nearly empty btw.
RAM Slots: 1 2 3 4.
Had them in 1 and 3 for at least a year and now moved them into 1 and 2. CPU temps are actually a bit cooler too, 2-3c
Another thing that may help is that I have had a very bad experience with delidding my 7700k so I wonder if that would have any side of effects on this if done improperly, like the freezing sometimes etc
MB: Z270 GAMING M3
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 DRAM 3200MHz
At first it wouldn’t even boot up, would make a very weird loud grinding noise then shut off then loop. Waited few min and tried again and it booted but no screen, motherboard light indicators flashing back and forth between cpu and memory. Did a google search and someone else had same problem recommended ram in slots 1 and 2. Did it and it thankfully worked.. so everything running fine for now.
I’m just confused what happened and why slapping the top of the computer or something falling on it, sometimes only, will cause the pc to freeze and need reboot. My cat will jump on it sometimes and nothing happens and I’m sure he weighs more than air blaster can. Nearly empty btw.
RAM Slots: 1 2 3 4.
Had them in 1 and 3 for at least a year and now moved them into 1 and 2. CPU temps are actually a bit cooler too, 2-3c
Another thing that may help is that I have had a very bad experience with delidding my 7700k so I wonder if that would have any side of effects on this if done improperly, like the freezing sometimes etc
MB: Z270 GAMING M3
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 DRAM 3200MHz
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