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Question

Computer not able to boot up

Nov 8, 2018 3:52PM PST

I was playing computer games with my friends when i noticed my PC had started to lag. I restarted my computer but upon rebooting I noticed that it would open the motherboard splash screen, flash a black screen with a white underscore in the top right then repeat the process again. I had tried many different things until i tried taking out 1 stick of ram. Upon doing this my computer started up properly. I added my other stick of RAM and the computer went through the same faulty process as before. I removed the Ram i thought was broken and started again but instead of booting properly it did the same thing where it kept trying to reboot itself. So i tried with the other stick of ram (the one i thought was broken) and found out that it worked. Upon adding the other stick of ram i had the same issue. Any and all help is appreciated, i have tried many solutions and I do not want to spend much money on this problem. Thanks.


Specs: Nvidia gtx 1070 (EVGA), Asrock Fatal1ty 990fx killer (Motherboard), samsung 850 EVO SSD, GSkill Ripjaws X series 8gb (2x4) (RAM), EVGA 850w Power supply, AMD fx8350 CPU.

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sounds like you have a bad RAM stick
Nov 8, 2018 6:09PM PST

replace it with same type as the one that works.

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Go to a working machine
Nov 8, 2018 9:37PM PST