Completely Lost.....

[DB1997]

Hey guys so if you check my profile you will see that I have been having a ton of trouble with my new system that I built. After having my ram RMA'd once and my motherboard twice, I am still having the same exact problems and I am lost beyond belief. This is making me just want to sell my computer all together. A short run down is that my desktop since I built it has ran kind of weird sometimes getting stuck when booting from a shut down. It would get stuck on the yellow DRAM light on my motherboard and after switching it on and off at the power supply, this would usually fix the problem and it would boot up. Now however after I have sent the RAM in and the motherboard TWICE, it is still doing the same thing. I just received a new motherboard from ASUS so I can't really think it is the motherboard anymore. Now it only boots with one stick of ram in it and when I put two in it either is stuck on the DRAM light or the red CPU light. I just can't think of what could be causing this problem. Occasionally the RGB lights flicker as well but that is a different problem. I have tried setting the memory frequency down to 3200MHz instead of the advertised 3600 hoping that it might help. No better. Could it be the CPU? I mean it works with one stick of ram so is that even possible? If anybody can think of anything I would love to hear it. Thanks.

 

Computer Specs:

CPU: 3900X

RAM: TridentZ Neo 2x16GB 3600MHz

GPU: RTX 2070 Super Gaming X Trio

Storag: 3TB HDD Seagate and 512GB NVME Sabrent Rocket

Power Supply: Corsair RM750x

[RussianSalad]

A bad cpu could cause all sorts of trouble that are sometimes even intermittent. It can also be a flaky power supply. Unstable power delivery usually really makes a computer unstable, even when sometimes it appears to work fine.

 

My recommendation would be trying with another power supply first and then try to borrow an AM4 cpu or get whatever the cheapest APU you can get. I thing the Athlon 300GE is 50 USD.

 

Edit: You should also look into the ram speed limit of your motherboard. Because you can't always run ram faster than what the motherboard was designed for. For example a B350 motherboard I have with a ryzen 3600 can run ram up to 3000MHz being stable. Even if the kit and the cpu are rated for the 3200MHz operation.

[Intergalacticbits]

You know it is weird that two other people have made recent posts about somewhat similar problems.

Leed in general discussion and Solar Samurai in trouble shooting. You might want to check out those posts?

 

[Constantin]

39 minutes ago, DB1997 said:

Hey guys so if you check my profile you will see that I have been having a ton of trouble with my new system that I built. After having my ram RMA'd once and my motherboard twice, I am still having the same exact problems and I am lost beyond belief. This is making me just want to sell my computer all together. A short run down is that my desktop since I built it has ran kind of weird sometimes getting stuck when booting from a shut down. It would get stuck on the yellow DRAM light on my motherboard and after switching it on and off at the power supply, this would usually fix the problem and it would boot up. Now however after I have sent the RAM in and the motherboard TWICE, it is still doing the same thing. I just received a new motherboard from ASUS so I can't really think it is the motherboard anymore. Now it only boots with one stick of ram in it and when I put two in it either is stuck on the DRAM light or the red CPU light. I just can't think of what could be causing this problem. Occasionally the RGB lights flicker as well but that is a different problem. I have tried setting the memory frequency down to 3200MHz instead of the advertised 3600 hoping that it might help. No better. Could it be the CPU? I mean it works with one stick of ram so is that even possible? If anybody can think of anything I would love to hear it. Thanks.

 

Computer Specs:

CPU: 3900X

RAM: TridentZ Neo 2x16GB 3600MHz

GPU: RTX 2070 Super Gaming X Trio

Storag: 3TB HDD Seagate and 512GB NVME Sabrent Rocket

Power Supply: Corsair RM750x

This is the ell known never ending issue with AMD AND RAM compatibility 

 

 

[DB1997]

1 minute ago, Constantin said:

This is the ell known never ending issue with AMD AND RAM compatibility 

 

 

The box the ram came in says AMD Ryzen 3000 compatible....

[Constantin]

2 minutes ago, DB1997 said:

The box the ram came in says AMD Ryzen 3000 compatible....

Yes of course they are!!

we are talking about compatibility issues here 

[DB1997]

So if it potentially a power supply issue, how could I determine that? Like what should I look for? I don't have a spare one laying around to swap out. I have CPUID HWMonitor installed and ran it for an hour or two last night and watched the voltages but nothing really look strange and all of the different categories were pretty darn stable.