Hi everyone,
After two years of working well my rig recently gave up the ghost, and I'd appreciate your help in figuring out why/what the issue is - I'm not entirely sure gigabyte support's response is all that accurate.
Firstly, the relevant specs;
- Gigabyte GA-AB350-Gaming 3 mobo
- Ryzen 7 1700
- Corsair Vengence LPX CMK8GX4M2B3000C15 (4Gb x2)
So during a day of normal use, mostly just Netflix, I attempted to load up Bluestacks. The emulator failed to open and came up with an error message recommending restarting the emulator, or the PC. Restarting Bluestacks did nothing so I rebooted the PC.
Unfortunately it never posted, and the error indicator leds kept flickering between CPU and DRAM.
I took the machine apart, cleaned it up a bit with some compressed air, and reseated the components to make sure it wasn't just a loose connection. None of this seemed to make any difference and the error lights remained the same.
I tried swapping the ram into different channels, as well as trying each stick individually. This has no effect either.
Finally I tried disconnecting the CPU power, and this was enough to get the error light to turn solid on the CPU.
I spoke to Gigabyte support who told me the issue was incompatibility between the mobo and the memory. This is the crux of my first question - the support list contains other versions of ddr4 Corsair Vengence LPX at the same clock speed, so is it really possible it's an incompatibility issue just because it's got less storage? Especially given it worked flawlessly before this.
When I questioned their response gigabyte recommended I RMA my mobo as well as my CPU, but obviously I'd like to rule out anything else first before I go through that hassle.
Does anyone have any other suggestions on what the issue may be or possible fixes?
Thanks!