Motherboard dying?

DeliciousStorage · 7 Jan 2021 at 22:05

For a few days I've been getting complete system freezes when the CPU is under high load encoding videos with handbrake. I removed my RAM overclock (3600mhz) and set everything back to auto (2400mhz) in case it was the cause but it kept freezing. After a freeze today it wouldn't boot back up, the fans were spinning but I just had a black screen.

I opened up my PC and noticed a red light on the motherboard next to DRAM. I had 2 16GB sticks in slots 1 and 3, I tried each stick individually on slot 4 which worked, but neither would work on the first 2 slots. I currently have them in slots 3 and 4 which is working but I get a warning when booting up that the configuration isn't optimal.

Is my motherboard basically dying or is it possible it could be an issue with something else? The motherboard is a B450 Tomahawk Max around 14 months old.

DeliciousStorage · 11 Jan 2021 at 19:22

So for anyone that has this issue in the future I appear to have fixed it after I took the CPU out to check the pins. I have no idea why it fixed it though.

Tinkers2004 · 12 Jan 2021 at 16:52

DeliciousStorage said:
For a few days I've been getting complete system freezes when the CPU is under high load encoding videos with handbrake. I removed my RAM overclock (3600mhz) and set everything back to auto (2400mhz) in case it was the cause but it kept freezing. After a freeze today it wouldn't boot back up, the fans were spinning but I just had a black screen.

I opened up my PC and noticed a red light on the motherboard next to DRAM. I had 2 16GB sticks in slots 1 and 3, I tried each stick individually on slot 4 which worked, but neither would work on the first 2 slots. I currently have them in slots 3 and 4 which is working but I get a warning when booting up that the configuration isn't optimal.

Is my motherboard basically dying or is it possible it could be an issue with something else? The motherboard is a B450 Tomahawk Max around 14 months old.

If you have the RAM in slots 3 and 4 it isnt running in dual channel try using slots 2 and 4 to run dual channel.

When you took the CPU out did you look for any bent pins? this is known to give these types of issues especially not detecting some ram modules in some slots

DeliciousStorage · 12 Jan 2021 at 19:09

Tinkers2004 said:
If you have the RAM in slots 3 and 4 it isnt running in dual channel try using slots 2 and 4 to run dual channel.

When you took the CPU out did you look for any bent pins? this is known to give these types of issues especially not detecting some ram modules in some slots

Putting them in slots A1 and A2 was a temporary fix, they are now back in the original slots (A2 and B2) which is dual channel. I took the CPU out to check the pins which were fine. The only thing I can think of is maybe I had the CPU cooler mounted too tight.