BSOD

Ct0p · February 6, 2025

Hi I’ve had my desktop for some years now with a few upgrades. Recently, I upped the speed of my ram to 9000. I have ripjaw s5 4800ms ddr5 lol. Since then my pc started acting weird then not working at all. I reset the speed, took out the battery in the motherboard, wiped my hard drive and ssd, tried to reinstall windows, bought new ram, and looked through all xmp and other bios settings but can’t seem to figure it out. I can make another post listing all my error codes. Sometimes I get into the installation media and sometimes I don’t but either way when I try and install windows it crashes no matter what. I’m reinstalling a usb with windows 11 and previously I had windows 10 but my drives were wiped with that version. Any help is much appreciated.

DoctorNick · February 6, 2025

4 hours ago, Ct0p said:

Hi I’ve had my desktop for some years now with a few upgrades. Recently, I upped the speed of my ram to 9000. I have ripjaw s5 4800ms ddr5 lol. Since then my pc started acting weird then not working at all. I reset the speed, took out the battery in the motherboard, wiped my hard drive and ssd, tried to reinstall windows, bought new ram, and looked through all xmp and other bios settings but can’t seem to figure it out. I can make another post listing all my error codes. Sometimes I get into the installation media and sometimes I don’t but either way when I try and install windows it crashes no matter what. I’m reinstalling a usb with windows 11 and previously I had windows 10 but my drives were wiped with that version. Any help is much appreciated.

if you haven't tried clearing cmos, try that. (remove the battery while psu is off for 5 min) then insert battery again and fire up the pc. If it still not working on stock speeds, then it might be the ram that is fried or worse, the memory controller on the CPU.

Heyjake · February 6, 2025

9 hours ago, Ct0p said:

Hi I’ve had my desktop for some years now with a few upgrades. Recently, I upped the speed of my ram to 9000. I have ripjaw s5 4800ms ddr5 lol. Since then my pc started acting weird then not working at all. I reset the speed, took out the battery in the motherboard, wiped my hard drive and ssd, tried to reinstall windows, bought new ram, and looked through all xmp and other bios settings but can’t seem to figure it out. I can make another post listing all my error codes. Sometimes I get into the installation media and sometimes I don’t but either way when I try and install windows it crashes no matter what. I’m reinstalling a usb with windows 11 and previously I had windows 10 but my drives were wiped with that version. Any help is much appreciated.

It sounds like your PC might have sustained some damage or instability due to the RAM overclock. Running RAM at 9000 MHz could have stressed your CPU's memory controller. Try reseating the CPU (probably won't help but worth a try). High RAM overclocks can also sometimes damage the motherboard’s VRMs or memory traces. Look for any burn marks, damaged capacitors, or bent pins in the RAM slots. Since you already removed the CMOS battery, also try using the motherboard's clear CMOS jumper.

If your BIOS is outdated, updating it might help. Disable XMP/EXPO and keep RAM at its stock 4800 MHz and see if the system stabilizes.

Run MemTest86. If you can boot into BIOS and run MemTest86 from a USB, this will check for RAM errors. If that doesn't work run the system with one stick in different slots to check if a particular stick or slot is faulty.

Since your OS installation crashes, your SSD/HDD might have been corrupted. Try a different drive if possible. You could also use a Different USB Drive for Windows Installation: Sometimes, bad installation media causes issues.

Look at Error Codes and Debug LEDs. If your motherboard has an error code display, look up the codes you’re getting.

Those are all my guesses on what could be wrong. Good luck!