Black screen on startup until I remove a stick of RAM

[Stylie]

I get a Black screen on startup until I remove a stick of RAM, and then the computer shows the bios logo and into windows. Its every time I shut down the computer and switch it off at the wall.

If I then put the same memory stick back in, the computer works and goes into windows.

The computer is fine with restarts.

(Before I had blue screens, so I formatted the SSD and reinstalled windows, but have had memory management, PFN_List corrupt, unexpected_Kernel_mode and I still do but a lot less now).

Any idea's to what the problem might be?

 

[Stylie]

The computer is 2.5 years old, bought ready made. When I formatted my hard drive I only installed the Bios on the CD. Should I download the latest Bios as my computer still crashes when trying to do stuff. Computer not overclocked and I have not tried memtest. My specs are:

Item Qty Price
"Titan Bayonet" Intel Core i5 4690 @ 3.9GHz Turbo AMD Radeon Gaming PC
Asus Xonar DGX 5.1 PCI-Express Sound Card with built in Headphone Amp
Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD
Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) 1 £48.32
Sapphire Radeon R7 260X OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (11222-06-20G)
Intel Core i5-4690 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor
Aerocool V3X Advance Devil Red Edition Midi-Tower - Black/Red
Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614)
OcUK Standard System Warranty - 3 Year (24 Month C&R + 12 Month Labour)
Standard Build Systems - Dispatched within 7 working days

 

[Stylie]

2 x 4GB RAM - Elite Team Group DDR3 1600

 

[Stylie]

I have done the memtest86 which tested 100% with zero errors. It took about two hours

It has never crashed in bios settings, but I don't spend much time using it, its always been the blue screen of death in windows. Just had one after rebooting after the memtest.

Hmmm, need to sort out USB stick I guess? I might try and load the optimised default settings before to see if that does anything.

PSU is 550W Super Flower 80 plus gold

 

[Stylie]

What cooler have you got strapped to the top of the CPU?

Its a metal heat sink tower thing, not water cooled, does that make sense?

How did you remove the clock?

Clock what clock? I'm sure I loaded default settings a few days ago, but I will try again.

GIGABYTE Patented DualBIOS™ (UEFI) Design, hopefully means I cant screw this up. F6 was the CD version, looking at the choices for Rev 2 which is my motherboard I choose F10c which is the latest. Do I need to flash with the other bios setups first i.e F7, F8, or F9, or just use the F10c (newest bios update)?

 

[Stylie]

I pulled the battery out for more than 1 minute to reset the CMOS. Afterwards I had to restart it 3 times to get it working and the options were to load optimised default settings and reboot which I have now done. I pulled all the connections the other day and visually inspected the board to find nothing out of the ordinary. P.S my sound card and graphics card are already taken out and running with onboard graphics. Motherboard is firm. Internet is with a cable into the motherboard. Flash my bios?

 

[Stylie]

I flashed the Bios without problem, however windows opened and crashed a few times, went into recovery mode, tried to do a PC refresh, said to enter windows cd, then failed, then I did exit and restart windows and it came up with a few windows blue screen error messages, then I went to Bios and changed the boot setup to select my SSD as the 1st one and now back into windows. The blue screen error messages were NFTS_File_System, System _service, memory management, kernel security check failure and when it restarted still had my windows disk in drive and crashed and said attempted execute of non-execute memory.

I will continue to test the shut down to see if I get the black screen.

 

[Stylie]

I kept getting blue screen, so I had no choice but to re-install windows. SSD scan found zero errors.
Do I need to insert the cd to download the motherboard drivers now that I re-installed windows?

 

[Stylie]

I downloaded the drivers from intel and installed some of them, Intel Driver update Utility. Computer is now running without any errors or problems and system is stable. Installed Graphics Card, sound card and the drivers. Computer is working normal and smooth. Looks like my Bios came corrupt somehow and in turn windows got corrupt. I dident do the over night memtest, but have another two sticks of ram which I need to test which are not yet installed. What a pain that was. I have never flashed my motherboard bios before so its good to learn these things. Thank you for your help and if I have more developments I will let you know.