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Hey guys, about a month ago I bumped a ram stick accidently while my pc was on, it was a very soft bump. My pc instantly shutted down and started boot looping. After I reseated my ram it turned on normally. A week later my pc started bootlooping again I reseated my ram and it worked fine. I am running a b560m steel legend motherboard from asrock, 2 sticks of ram 8gbs from corsair at 3200mhz, a 11600k and the igpu. I did a memtest 86 diagnostic on both my memory sticks on the slot that could have been damaged when I bumped my ram with my hand and no errors where detected. My ram slots work fine apparently and I dont get the usual ram problems when I successfully boot, it's just that I have to reseat my ram from time to time. If I remove one of the ramsticks when my pc starts bootlooping it works just fine, if I reinsert the ram stick it bootloops but if I switch my ram sticks places my pc boots normally. What could be the problem? What was probably damaged? 
 

Thank you for the help!

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RAM shouldn't be THAT sensitive to a small bump. Are you sure the sticks are seated fully?

 

If so it sounds like the motherboard RAM slots are suspect if it keeps erroring out and memtest came back okay.

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1 minute ago, RAS_3885 said:

RAM shouldn't be THAT sensitive to a small bump. Are you sure the sticks are seated fully?

 

If so it sounds like the motherboard RAM slots are suspect if it keeps erroring out and memtest came back okay.

I am pretty sure it is seated correctly, could my pc boot otherwise? Is there anyway to test a ram slot?

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Just now, Rafa_1314 said:

I am pretty sure it is seated correctly, could my pc boot otherwise? Is there anyway to test a ram slot?

Try removing & reseating them as a sanity check... then try one stick in every slot to see if you can at least get to BIOS; repeat with as many sticks as the systems has.

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Did you test boot it, before you built in into the case?

WHY NOT...?!

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