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Hey folks,
I built a Ryzen system a year and a half ago, with an MSI x570-a pro (yeah the cheap x570 , a 3800x and 4x16GB sticks of HyperX Predator RGB 3200MHz DDR4. It's been working fine. Sometime in December I upgraded the processor to a 5950x.
Last week, the system stopped booting and the "RAM" light on the "EZ-Debug" panel lit up. I took everything out and reseated it, then it booted fine, but every couple of hours my (linux) system would hard lock, and one in three reboots would still give the RAM light and no boot.
So I thought it was a dead stick. I tested each of the sticks individually in slot "B2", which is easiest to get at, with memtest86, and they all passed. I put the same stick in "A1" and it boots but memtest86 reports some errors. Back in "B2" it's working fine. It works fine in "A2", with it in "B1" the system didn't boot first time but has now memtested just fine on a retry, I think that failure was an aberration.
So ... it looks like the RAM itself is probably fine, but the "A1" (leftmost) slot is causing issues. Question is, does this point to a motherboard problem or a CPU problem, with Ryzen?
I *could* try the 3700X from my partner's PC but swapping CPUs is a hassle I'd rather avoid, but if it's the only way to diagnose I guess I could
I built a Ryzen system a year and a half ago, with an MSI x570-a pro (yeah the cheap x570 , a 3800x and 4x16GB sticks of HyperX Predator RGB 3200MHz DDR4. It's been working fine. Sometime in December I upgraded the processor to a 5950x.
Last week, the system stopped booting and the "RAM" light on the "EZ-Debug" panel lit up. I took everything out and reseated it, then it booted fine, but every couple of hours my (linux) system would hard lock, and one in three reboots would still give the RAM light and no boot.
So I thought it was a dead stick. I tested each of the sticks individually in slot "B2", which is easiest to get at, with memtest86, and they all passed. I put the same stick in "A1" and it boots but memtest86 reports some errors. Back in "B2" it's working fine. It works fine in "A2", with it in "B1" the system didn't boot first time but has now memtested just fine on a retry, I think that failure was an aberration.
So ... it looks like the RAM itself is probably fine, but the "A1" (leftmost) slot is causing issues. Question is, does this point to a motherboard problem or a CPU problem, with Ryzen?
I *could* try the 3700X from my partner's PC but swapping CPUs is a hassle I'd rather avoid, but if it's the only way to diagnose I guess I could
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