My machine froze IN the BIOS

[Sn4tchBandicoot]

So i was checking a setting in my BIOS just now and all of a sudden it froze!

Cursor wouldn't move, keyboard wouldn't register, nothing at all. Obviously is required a hard reboot due to this.

 

I have never actually had this happen to me on any machine before so I am unsure of what to make of it, everything is running the BIOS defaults, so no overclock at all, the BIOS is as up to date as Asus has.

 

What can cause this? I have also been having random reboots and Blue Screens lately as well so that may be linked to this.

[Mo5]

Faulty RAM probably

[Sn4tchBandicoot]

I have tested the memory usign the onboard MemOK! button, but I should probably use memtest

 

Faulty RAM probably

[ExcitezR]

might just be a glitch 

[Raffy98]

If you have more than one stick of RAM, test the system by removing the sticks one by one.

When it no longer BSODs, displaying errors or behaving weird, you just found one faulty stick of RAM.

If this doesn't work, it might be the motherboard itself.

[Sn4tchBandicoot]

If you have more than one stick of RAM, test the system by removing the sticks one by one.

When it no longer BSODs, displaying errors or behaving weird, you just found one faulty stick of RAM.

If this doesn't work, it might be the motherboard itself.

I will run a memtest instead, it's entirely randoms as to when it blue screens, and it's not always memory management or memory related crashes, I think it was just a lot more windows than anything.

[Raffy98]

I will run a memtest instead, it's entirely randoms as to when it blue screens, and it's not always memory management or memory related crashes, I think it was just a lot more windows than anything.

I think that's a smart move, so we can find out if there is anything related that can lead to RAM problems.

[Sn4tchBandicoot]

So I set the computer to run a memtesk (passmark memtest) and left at ~60% on pass one, come back and my machine had booted back to windows, I am going to assume that there was a power failure somewhere along the line and it continued with normal boot.

 

@Raffy98

[Raffy98]

So I set the computer to run a memtesk (passmark memtest) and left at ~60% on pass one, come back and my machine had booted back to windows, I am going to assume that there was a power failure somewhere along the line and it continued with normal boot.

 

@Raffy98

Try re-running memtest.

[Sn4tchBandicoot]

Try re-running memtest.

I assume that's not normal?

I am also going to look into getting a power supply tester as well, should come in handy.

[Raffy98]

I assume that's not normal?

I am also going to look into getting a power supply tester as well, should come in handy.

Yea, they are sold for 15€ on amazon... relatively cheap.

[Sn4tchBandicoot]

Try re-running memtest.

I can't see it actually being a RAM issue at this point considering that it was testing the ram and rebooted, it should have just stayed with the test and counted it as an error