Davy12

I'm just coming back to this apparently it's actually my memory (weird, I know). I remounted the cpu and still the same dram light. I tested every ram slots with my two ram sticks and only the A slots closest to my cpu still work so I'm currently running single memory channel but at least the cpu still works (for the moment). Thanks again for the help

Thanks, I've seen the video but maybe it was not clear from my original post but the pin is completely bent back. I can't even spot the difference between it and other pins anymore

The system did not post even though I did not touch the ram originally. I only got it to post again when I removed a ram stick from the B channel

So I will just have to keep running everything at single channel for ever?

I did both configurations with one slot in between, both do not work. (They did before my cpu accident) The orange dram light keeps being the result.

I was kind of hard on my cpu with some things I did for example I bent a pin, spilled some thermal paste on the pins. However pc is posting but only if I run single channel memory i.e. plug both of my ram sticks in next to eachother in the A slots. The B slots do not work even if only one memory stick is used I get the solid orange dram light. Is there a way to fix this? Is this my CPU or my motherboards fault or maybe even my memory (both work, tested this). (ryzen 5 3600, corsair vengeance lpx 3200mhz, asus tuf gaming b550 wifi)

Ok, thanks a lot for the help even though it's sad news.

So what do I do now to save my motherboard. How do I cancel this update?

I got a new cooler and tried to install it today, but I'm very new and I forgot to heat up the thermal paste and when removing the stock cooler I ripped the cpu right out. I touched the pins with my thermal paste hand so I had to clean it. Kind of bent a pin but was bent back and the thermal paste was clearly separated so no connection between the different pins. I assembeled everything again, booted perfectly. Ran cinebench R20 and got an error (something about cpu I think, forgot the code). When trying to reboot I get a DRAM error now (which i had before but usually it disappeared after pressing reset). So tried updating bios with asus bios flashback tool but it just does not work the light stays on though it should go off (40 mins now). Is my cpu dead? How can I stop the bios update if it won't continue or has never actually started? (sorry for really long post) (ryzen 5 3600 cpu, asus b550 tuf gaming wifi mobo)

I got a new cooler and tried to install it today, but I'm very new and I forgot to heat up the thermal paste and when removing the stock cooler I ripped the cpu right out. I touched the pins with my thermal paste hand so I had to clean it. Kind of bent a pin but was bent back and the thermal paste was clearly separated so no connection between the different pins. I assembeled everything again, booted perfectly. Ran cinebench R20 and got an error (something about cpu I think, forgot the code). When trying to reboot I get a DRAM error now (which i had before but usually it disappeared after pressing reset). So tried updating bios with asus bios flashback tool but it just does not work the light stays on though it should go off (40 mins now). Is my cpu dead? How can I stop the bios update if it won't continue or has never actually started? (sorry for really long post) (ryzen 5 3600 cpu, asus b550 tuf gaming wifi mobo)

Ah, shows I'm a pc noob, but why not just make the bottom one's blowing in?

I wonder why would you have some fans sucking hot air in? I would mount all those fans going through a rad going out. Get some fans on the back sucking fresh air in.

I agree I want to see a full scientific study and the results better have some fancy error bars too.

Once the system gets to thermal eq. Which we saw was pretty fast under high load the loop itself should not matter anymore I think.

Ah so very interesting. But it could disperse the heat two times as fast since it has two radiators which we can thus, as proven by linus, view as nearly independent cooling systems. But I would still be very interesting to see the same set up with two radiators mounted behind each other.