RAM defect after BIOS update?

[IchDie]

Yesterday, I updated my BIOS before I went to bed. When I started my PC today it would not boot.(MB LED was orange (RAM)). As soon as I removed 1 stick my PC immediately was able to boot again. Is it just unlucky that my 5 month old RAM decided to break after a BIOS update or did the BIOS update actually somehow managed to destroy 1 RAM stick?

[OddOod]

It's extremely unlikely that it killed the stick. There's a chance it tightened tolerances. I'd probably try cycling the "dead" stick through the other slots to see if it will boot with any.

[Clearviper]

28 minutes ago, IchDie said:

Yesterday, I updated my BIOS before I went to bed. When I started my PC today it would not boot.(MB LED was orange (RAM)). As soon as I removed 1 stick my PC immediately was able to boot again. Is it just unlucky that my 5 month old RAM decided to break after a BIOS update or did the BIOS update actually somehow managed to destroy 1 RAM stick?

when you put that stick you removed in the slot with the one that lets the pc boot does that stick work?. if not i'd say go find the version of the bios you were on and downgrade to it or reinstall your current bios with a new bios file. as its very possiable the update bricked one of the slots temp. or the current settings of your ram and the bios are conflitcing. if you do manage to get that one stick to work in the ram slot also run mem test if the bios redo fails

[Agall]

35 minutes ago, IchDie said:

Yesterday, I updated my BIOS before I went to bed. When I started my PC today it would not boot.(MB LED was orange (RAM)). As soon as I removed 1 stick my PC immediately was able to boot again. Is it just unlucky that my 5 month old RAM decided to break after a BIOS update or did the BIOS update actually somehow managed to destroy 1 RAM stick?

I've seen issues with DDR5 memory training that the system does on POST. I'd clear CMOS and let the motherboard drain power to force memory training, aka the long 1 minute long POST that Ryzen does initially. CMOS + dry power on.

[IchDie]

42 minutes ago, Clearviper said:

when you put that stick you removed in the slot with the one that lets the pc boot does that stick work?. if not i'd say go find the version of the bios you were on and downgrade to it or reinstall your current bios with a new bios file. as its very possiable the update bricked one of the slots temp. or the current settings of your ram and the bios are conflitcing. if you do manage to get that one stick to work in the ram slot also run mem test if the bios redo fails

The one that works, works in any slot. The one that doesn't works in none.

[IchDie]

37 minutes ago, Agall said:

I've seen issues with DDR5 memory training that the system does on POST. I'd clear CMOS and let the motherboard drain power to force memory training, aka the long 1 minute long POST that Ryzen does initially. CMOS + dry power on.

didn't work

[OddOod]

On 5/23/2023 at 12:31 PM, IchDie said:

didn't work

RMA it. It's insane that this happened, but if the stick's dead, it's dead. 
There is a small chance that reseating the CPU (and as always check for bent pins while you've got it pulled) will fix it, but we're still pretty bleeding edge for DDR5 and these things happen. 

[TELLAH]

On 5/24/2023 at 4:18 AM, IchDie said:

Yesterday, I updated my BIOS before I went to bed. When I started my PC today it would not boot.(MB LED was orange (RAM)). As soon as I removed 1 stick my PC immediately was able to boot again. Is it just unlucky that my 5 month old RAM decided to break after a BIOS update or did the BIOS update actually somehow managed to destroy 1 RAM stick?

This just happened to me too. ASUS ROG STRIX B550F, CORSAIR Vengeance DDR4. The system will post with 1 stick, the other now seems to be bricked and will stop the system posting while showing the orange VRAM LED on the MB. Did you have any luck with an RMA?