Blue screen of death and never posted again

[chrispy747]

Hello,

Yesterday I was playing some rocket league with friends, when suddenly i got a blue screen of death which was really unexpected. I forgot to save the error code so I'm not exactly sure what caused it. But when it went to restart it never posted.

The lights and fans turn on, but it doesn't post. When I just leave it on, it turns itself off after about 30 seconds and turns back on.

I unplugged it and reseated the ram, cpu, gpu, and took out the cmos battery. I checked that all the wires were plugged in but still no luck.

I'm thinking that my MB died but it's not that old. I built this system about a year ago.

My system is:

Ryzen 5 1600

Asrock b450 fatality

Cooler master 120 aio

G.skill aegis 16gb ddr4-3000

Asus Gtx 1070

Thermaltake tough power 1000w

Nzxt h500i

 

[svmlegacy]

Follow this thread to the letter, and get back to us.

Clear CMOS.

Make sure to re-seat all connectors, disconnect drives, and reseat memory.

 

[chrispy747]

13 minutes ago, svmlegacy said:

Follow this thread to the letter, and get back to us.

Clear CMOS.

Make sure to re-seat all connectors, disconnect drives, and reseat memory

Alright, I did everything In order and it still doesn't post. I just tried my gpu and monitor on another pc and they both worked. I don't have another pc that supports ddr4 memory so I can't test those.

[svmlegacy]

2 minutes ago, chrispy747 said:

Alright, I did everything In order and it still doesn't post. I just tried my gpu and monitor on another pc and they both worked. I don't have another pc that supports ddr4 memory so I can't test those.

K4 or ITX Fatal1ty?

[chrispy747]

Just now, svmlegacy said:

K4 or ITX Fatal1ty?

K4,. Also I was thinking I got this aio cooler in 2016 or 17. So it could have gone out

[svmlegacy]

Just now, chrispy747 said:

K4,. Also I was thinking I got this aio cooler in 2016 or 17. So it could have gone out

Wouldn't cause a bluescreen, just a blackscreen. If this was the case, if you let it cool off for a couple hours, it should startup for ~ 30 seconds or so before blackscreening. (all power off, inc fans and lights)

[svmlegacy]

@chrispy747 Can you post a picture of the DIMM label, and let us know which slots you're using?

[chrispy747]

1 minute ago, svmlegacy said:

If this was the case, if you let it cool off for a couple hours, it should startup for ~ 30 seconds or so before blackscreening. (all power off, inc fans and lights)

That's fair. I let it sit over night, so that wouldn't be the problem

[chrispy747]

6 minutes ago, svmlegacy said:

Can you post a picture of the DIMM label, and let us know which slots you're using?

Sure thing

[chrispy747]

[svmlegacy]

7 hours ago, chrispy747 said:

Sure thing

Thanks for that, apologies on the delay.

Try moving the DIMM's to A2 & B2, most AMD mobo's don't like A1/B1 for some reason.

[Loki0111]

8 hours ago, chrispy747 said:

Hello,

Yesterday I was playing some rocket league with friends, when suddenly i got a blue screen of death which was really unexpected. I forgot to save the error code so I'm not exactly sure what caused it. But when it went to restart it never posted.

The lights and fans turn on, but it doesn't post. When I just leave it on, it turns itself off after about 30 seconds and turns back on.

I unplugged it and reseated the ram, cpu, gpu, and took out the cmos battery. I checked that all the wires were plugged in but still no luck.

I'm thinking that my MB died but it's not that old. I built this system about a year ago.

My system is:

Ryzen 5 1600

Asrock b450 fatality

Cooler master 120 aio

G.skill aegis 16gb ddr4-3000

Asus Gtx 1070

Thermaltake tough power 1000w

Nzxt h500i

 

The power cycling at 30 seconds on previously working systems is often a component failure. I've had it happen with a Xeon E5-2670 that died on me. Reseat the RAM (only one stick, remove the second one) and cards first, failing that try reseating the CPU.

 

If that doesn't work you are going to need to validate each component one at a time to figure out which one is causing the problem. That includes the motherboard.

[chrispy747]

16 hours ago, svmlegacy said:

Try moving the DIMM's to A2 & B2, most AMD mobo's don't like A1/B1 for some reason.

 

16 hours ago, Loki0111 said:

If that doesn't work you are going to need to validate each component one at a time to figure out which one is causing the problem. That includes the motherboard.

Sorry about the delay.

I've deduced the problem to be the ram. I moved them to A2 and B2 and it seems to work. Although, the bios recognizes all 16Gb, windows only sees 8. The rest is hardware reserved. Not sure what to do about that. But, at least my computer is working now.

[Mark Kaine]

So the RAM or RAM slots got bad, huh?

 

I'd try exchanging the mobo or the RAM, hard to say since the BIOS apparently sees the RAM? 

[chrispy747]

Just now, Mark Kaine said:

So the RAM or RAM slots got bad, huh?

 

I'd try exchanging the mobo or the RAM, hard to say since the BIOS apparently sees the RAM? 

Yeah, not sure whether mobo or ram went bad. Maybe ill buy both around black friday.

[svmlegacy]

8 hours ago, chrispy747 said:

Sorry about the delay.

I've deduced the problem to be the ram. I moved them to A2 and B2 and it seems to work. Although, the bios recognizes all 16Gb, windows only sees 8. The rest is hardware reserved. Not sure what to do about that. But, at least my computer is working now.

Try each individual DIMM in A2 alone. Test it with Memtest86 (bootable), and Prime95 Large FFT's.

[chrispy747]

13 hours ago, svmlegacy said:

Try each individual DIMM in A2 alone. Test it with Memtest86 (bootable), and Prime95 Large FFT's.

One of my sticks is dead. I tried it in every slot with no luck. Possibly a1 and b1 slots might be dead. I tried the good stick in them and my pc didn't want to boot up.

[svmlegacy]

4 hours ago, chrispy747 said:

One of my sticks is dead. I tried it in every slot with no luck. Possibly a1 and b1 slots might be dead. I tried the good stick in them and my pc didn't want to boot up.

A1 & B1 are picky on Ryzen machines. They usually work fine when in 4-DIMM operation. I've seen a B350 board that refuses to use A1 or B1, unless A2 or B2 is used.