Soldato
So I recently built my Mrs a SFF PC, its consisted of my old Ryzen 7900 Non X after I upgraded to a 7900X3D, and ASUS B650E ITX motherboard and 32gb (2x16gb) G.Skill Trident Z5 6000mhz CL30 DDR5 Ram.
My machine is / was a Ryzen 7900X3D, ASUS X670E Gene and 32gb (2x16gb) G.Skill Trident Z5 7800mhz running at 6400mhz CL28.
So up until tonight her PC was running fine without any issue, bear in mind nothing has changed since I built it, so this evening we went to switch it on and it wouldnt post, there is no post code display, just the 4 LED's, it was stuck on the RAM LED, so I cleared the cmos and still no post, I instantly started looking at the ram, I took 1 stick out, still wouldnt post, I moved the stick in the PC to the other slot and it posted, so I put the 2nd stick back in and again it wouldnt post, I thought, this is either a faulty RAM slot on the board or the CPU has gained a fault (IMC), so to narrow it down, I tried my RAM in my Mrs machine, same problem, the PC would only post with the ram in 1 slot of the motherboard, didnt matter which stick I used, they would both work, but only in 1 slot.
So try and eliminate if it was the CPU or the motherboard at fault, I took the chip out of my Mrs machine and my Machine and swapped them over, here the crazy part, her chip is working fine in my machine, and my chip is working fine in her machine, so she now has the 7900X3D and im back on my 7900 Non X and all memory slots on both machines are working fine, all I can say is WTF !!!!
I should inform you that approx 30mins before this, my Mrs actually said to me "Do you want to swap CPUs", my answer to this was no I cant be bothered with all of that, I think she jinxed it, got her own way in the end.
My machine is / was a Ryzen 7900X3D, ASUS X670E Gene and 32gb (2x16gb) G.Skill Trident Z5 7800mhz running at 6400mhz CL28.
So up until tonight her PC was running fine without any issue, bear in mind nothing has changed since I built it, so this evening we went to switch it on and it wouldnt post, there is no post code display, just the 4 LED's, it was stuck on the RAM LED, so I cleared the cmos and still no post, I instantly started looking at the ram, I took 1 stick out, still wouldnt post, I moved the stick in the PC to the other slot and it posted, so I put the 2nd stick back in and again it wouldnt post, I thought, this is either a faulty RAM slot on the board or the CPU has gained a fault (IMC), so to narrow it down, I tried my RAM in my Mrs machine, same problem, the PC would only post with the ram in 1 slot of the motherboard, didnt matter which stick I used, they would both work, but only in 1 slot.
So try and eliminate if it was the CPU or the motherboard at fault, I took the chip out of my Mrs machine and my Machine and swapped them over, here the crazy part, her chip is working fine in my machine, and my chip is working fine in her machine, so she now has the 7900X3D and im back on my 7900 Non X and all memory slots on both machines are working fine, all I can say is WTF !!!!
I should inform you that approx 30mins before this, my Mrs actually said to me "Do you want to swap CPUs", my answer to this was no I cant be bothered with all of that, I think she jinxed it, got her own way in the end.
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