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It's been an honor being part of the PC Master Race (lemdro.id)
submitted 1 week ago by TheMilk@lemdro.id to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
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It's been an honor being apart of the PC Master Race for the last 9 years. Unfortunately my Ram decided to die when the market is too expensive. Troubleshooted all 4 RAM sticks, they are dead. I've been meaning to update my 2666 DDR4 but never got to it. Paying for my lazy consequences. It's been a fun ride. Don't know what I'll do with my spare time. I'll still be a lurker. Learn from my mistakes, upgrade/update when you can. Milk signing out. ✌️

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[-] Starfighter@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] Pechente@feddit.org 17 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] TheMilk@lemdro.id 3 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] JASN_DE@feddit.org 9 points 1 week ago

It's more likely for one mainboard to die rather than all 4 RAM sticks at the same moment.

[-] TheMilk@lemdro.id 5 points 1 week ago

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

[-] CannonGoBoom@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Remove/replace the cmos battery. I’ve had issues with booting to black and weird stuff because of an old battery. Worth a shot.

[-] moody@lemmings.world 2 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] T4V0@lemmy.pt 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] orochi02@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

Thats what u get for playing ow /s

[-] CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I have tons of unused DDR3. If it was that you needed, I'd mail some to you.

[-] Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

The hero we thought we never need

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