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About a month ago, my pc randomly crashed and wouldn't post. I didn't think anything of it because I had another motherboard to put everything into. The only problem is that I didn't use the same ram as the first build. Now, I'm upgrading to a new platform and was planning to use the ram that was with the dead board. Is there any way that I can diagnose that the motherboard or the ram is dead before I do anything, just so I don't break anything on my new platform? Thank you!

I don't think ram kills your MB, but you can just try putting them into your current build to see if it works. The normal thing to diagnose RAM is to take it all out, and then put one and one stick back in.

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About a month ago, my pc randomly crashed and wouldn't post. I didn't think anything of it because I had another motherboard to put everything into. The only problem is that I didn't use the same ram as the first build. Now, I'm upgrading to a new platform and was planning to use the ram that was with the dead board. Is there any way that I can diagnose that the motherboard or the ram is dead before I do anything, just so I don't break anything on my new platform? Thank you!

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About a month ago, my pc randomly crashed and wouldn't post. I didn't think anything of it because I had another motherboard to put everything into. The only problem is that I didn't use the same ram as the first build. Now, I'm upgrading to a new platform and was planning to use the ram that was with the dead board. Is there any way that I can diagnose that the motherboard or the ram is dead before I do anything, just so I don't break anything on my new platform. Thank you!

The only way to tell, it to either test the motherboard by inserting new ram and CPU and PSU that you know works.

 

 

Test the RAM but inserting RAM that you know that works.

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About a month ago, my pc randomly crashed and wouldn't post. I didn't think anything of it because I had another motherboard to put everything into. The only problem is that I didn't use the same ram as the first build. Now, I'm upgrading to a new platform and was planning to use the ram that was with the dead board. Is there any way that I can diagnose that the motherboard or the ram is dead before I do anything, just so I don't break anything on my new platform? Thank you!

try the old ram if you still have it 

When its tearing, you have gone to far

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About a month ago, my pc randomly crashed and wouldn't post. I didn't think anything of it because I had another motherboard to put everything into. The only problem is that I didn't use the same ram as the first build. Now, I'm upgrading to a new platform and was planning to use the ram that was with the dead board. Is there any way that I can diagnose that the motherboard or the ram is dead before I do anything, just so I don't break anything on my new platform? Thank you!

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Try using just one stick of ram ( try different sticks) in different slots .

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About a month ago, my pc randomly crashed and wouldn't post. I didn't think anything of it because I had another motherboard to put everything into. The only problem is that I didn't use the same ram as the first build. Now, I'm upgrading to a new platform and was planning to use the ram that was with the dead board. Is there any way that I can diagnose that the motherboard or the ram is dead before I do anything, just so I don't break anything on my new platform? Thank you!

I don't think ram kills your MB, but you can just try putting them into your current build to see if it works. The normal thing to diagnose RAM is to take it all out, and then put one and one stick back in.

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