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this post was submitted on 06 Dec 2025
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All 4 sticks are dead? How did you do that? Was there a power spike or something? But then I‘d imagine more components being damaged.
PC was perfectly fine a few days ago. Played today, everything was fine at first. Played a few matches of Overwatch. After match 5 the game would crash and close out. Played HD2 and same issue, after 6 minutes in game it crashed, played Arc for 10 minutes and it crashed. Run a few RAM stress tests and got several errors. Checked each ram stick and no life on them. Not to sure what caused the ram to die at the same time. Tested each ram stick individually and no signs of life on the PC. After removing and putting the ram back in, PC won't post anymore. Not to sure what to try now.
It's more likely for one mainboard to die rather than all 4 RAM sticks at the same moment.
I was able to pin point an issue. So far 1 of the 4 ram sticks still has life. Going to see what's wrong with the 3 other ones on my buddies rig, see if he gets the same issues. So down to 8GB of Ram
If your computer boots to is your ram can't all be dead. Pull the 1st and 3rd stick out. If that doesn't work then put them back and pull the 2nd and 4th stick out. If that doesn't work, like someone else mentioned, pull and replace your cmos battery, which should also reset your bios to default. If that doesn't work use a program to do a complete uninstall of your video card drivers and do a clean install of your video card drivers. If that fails, try changing (after you research settings a bit for your mobo) ram configuration settings in your bios. If that fails it's probably your PSU or mobo. If your PSU, bios config, or mobo fail it can cause a ram stress test to fail.
Remove/replace the cmos battery. I’ve had issues with booting to black and weird stuff because of an old battery. Worth a shot.
I also had the same issue a couple years ago. I didn't try testing the RAM because the symptoms led me to believe it was a PSU problem causing random crashes, but eventually something led me to question the CMOS battery, and replacing it fixed everything.
I don't know if it could cause memory tests to fail though.
Did you test using memtest86+? The RAM stress test while running an OS is more guided for OC rather than memory errors. And no test can guarantee problem-free RAM, only that it does have problems.
Thats what u get for playing ow /s