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Is this cpu damaged?

Nitrokanowbi

Nitrokanowbi

Nitrokanowbi

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7800x3d installed in an msi tomahawk b650. Worked (mostly, was never stable) for a few days (with most recent bios from msi) but as of today refused to boot even into bios.

As it was pretty unstable was planning on trying to figure that out and now today won't even get into bios! Feeling pretty frustrated by this, never had these issues before!

Red and fellow LEDs on the motherboard remain fully on. I've tried rebuilding the system, clearing cmos and redoing the bios but still no joy. When rebuilding I noticed these marks on the cpu, what do you think?

https://imgur.com/qVTHLE0

Thankyou!
 
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So an update, cleaned the pads of the CPU with iso and then removed my second stick of ram and the gpu.

Booted and went into windows fine, but only on one stick and not the other and also not with both.

Faulty stick? Ram is Kingston fury renagade.
 
Nitrokanowbi said:
So an update, cleaned the pads of the CPU with iso and then removed my second stick of ram and the gpu.

Booted and went into windows fine, but only on one stick and not the other and also not with both.

Faulty stick? Ram is Kingston fury renagade.
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Sounds like a faulty RAM module if you mean it won't boot with one of the two inserted by itself, but will with the other by itself. RAM failures are pretty rare, but they do happen. I bought a fancy Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR4 kit a couple of years back and one of the sticks just completely failed out of nowhere after a few days. The system didn't even recognise it was there any more. The RGB lighting still worked though, so at least the true critical functionality survived.
 
Nitrokanowbi said:
Tried every combo of ram. Stick A in any slot works fine, stick B in any slot doesn't work at all and the same for using the two sticks, just won't get to bios if stick B is involved. Time to send the Ram back do you think?
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Agree

I had the same with a brand new set of Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR5 recently - 1 stick was dead
 
Nitrokanowbi said:
Tried every combo of ram. Stick A in any slot works fine, stick B in any slot doesn't work at all and the same for using the two sticks, just won't get to bios if stick B is involved. Time to send the Ram back do you think?
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Yeah faulty RAM stick. Annoying but atleast now you've learnt to test the easy things first before rebuilding the whole PC in the future :p
 
SpudMaster said:
Yeah faulty RAM stick. Annoying but atleast now you've learnt to test the easy things first before rebuilding the whole PC in the future :p
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Very true! fingers crossed this solves the issue. This build is very frustrating so far! I just want a stable system to play games on in the few spare hours a week I get to do so!
 
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