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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.
Remove/replace the cmos battery. I’ve had issues with booting to black and weird stuff because of an old battery. Worth a shot.
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
Just out of curiosity I don't see how 4 sticks die together at the exact same time unless the PSU is/has fucked up hard.
I'd argue that the likelihood of 4 sticks failing together is much lower than the MOBO or CPU or PSU failing in a way that makes RAM inaccessible.
Typically you'd see one stick failing at which point you could take it out and run with the other 3 (or 2 depending on configuration).
Anyway if you ever intend to return its probably best to keep the rest of the components because who knows which of those will be up next for a shortage/crisis.
I agree with the rest, very little chance it's all 4 sticks dying at once. Test on other hardware after pulling the cmos battery.
this post was submitted on 06 Dec 2025
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