Problem with booting

Peik Saukonoja · 7 Jul 2021 at 15:04

Hi. I built my first PC yesterday (all parts new) and the PC turned on nicely and I set up windows with usb flash driver and all. I updated the bios to the newest one too with flash driver and all was working fine.

All up to this morning. I tried to boot up the PC but nothing shows up on the display and orange light is showing up on MOBO (indicating problem with DRAM based on MOBO's manual).

I have tried
1.) Taking the RAM sticks off and put them back in, tried with only 1 and on different slots, nothing works.
2.) I did change the setting on bios for RAM to D.O.C.P yesterday. So I removed the CMOS battery as read that'd reset the settings. Did not work
3.) I have tried reupdating the bios with flash driver, even a few older version of bios. Didn't work.

Sometimes the PC turns on till the point I get to BIOS but soon after display turns off and the dram lights shows up.

MOBO: Asus rog strix x570-f gaming
CPU: Amd ryzen 7 5800x
GPU: asus dual 3070
SSD: Kingston A2000 1tb
RAM: Crucial 2x 8GB 3600mhz cl16

Peik Saukonoja · 7 Jul 2021 at 16:12

I tried resetting CMOS as mentioned above but did not work

Peik Saukonoja · 7 Jul 2021 at 16:32

I couldn't stay on bios long enough as it always would turn off the display and the dram light would show up on MOBO. I tried to update the bios to older version (some from 2020) but I've now been stuck on "BIOS is updating led firmware" screen for an hour now.

Peik Saukonoja · 7 Jul 2021 at 17:00

I don't have another board but I did it anyways. Without any luck. Mobo still shows orange light (indicating problem with dram) when trying to boot

Peik Saukonoja · 8 Jul 2021 at 13:29

I finally got it working, the other ram stick was indeed faulty. I reset the CMOS again and tried with both sticks alone again (which I had already tried) and it started working. Using the second stick alone freezes the PC but other one works as it should.

Thank you all for the help