Having RAM Issues
So My Computer Is Acting Up
A few weeks ago I purchased a i9-9900K on Facebook Marketplace for an amazing deal. The listing did not mention this, but the seller included 64gb of (matching) RAM, a motherboard and an AIO cooler with the purchase of the CPU. I purchased a PSU, case and GPU all for pretty cheap as well to go with it. Now, the listing did mention that the motherboard had some kind of RAM issues, but I felt very confident in diagnosing the issues and this is where the past few days have lead me.
In all honesty, I have never directly attempted to work on RAM or a motherboard but I have watched a lot of videos and read guides so I figured it could not be too bad. I started by just running the computer with one stick of 16gb ram in the a2 slot. Worked no problem. I then inserted another stick into b2, worked fine. Puzzled I turned to memtest86, which I had read was the go to tool. It wasn’t until after I clicked start exactly how long the test would run for! 5 hours later it confirmed what I had suspected: dead RAM stick. Okay, great. Not a huge set back, but I wonder what could have happened to it. The motherboard included with the CPU listing is the ASUS ROG Maximus XI Code and it has an automatic overclock mode driven by ‘AI learning models.’ My best guess, even now, is that someone could have accidentally manually set the voltage too high for the RAM and it fried it, for lack of better term, but I genuinely do not know.
The dead stick of RAM now lives on my desk with a big pink sticky note ‘NO GOOD’ stuck to it. I have since ran memtest86 and it came back with no issues. However, the PC still randomly BSOD for no apparent reason! I say apparent, but it is not apparent to me why it does it. I have followed a few guides on how to run DISM.exe and how chkdsk works and they did help. I have since run DISM.exe three times and two of them it has found corrupted files in the Windows install, but why did that happen?? This is what has stumped me for the past 48 hours or so. I currently have no answer as to what has been corrupting the Windows install, but short of completely deleting everything on the M.2 and reinstalling the OS I don’t think I will ever find out.
Anyways, that’s my ramblings for today, take care!