pc doesnt post with dram light on

Posted by Brave-Pomegranate-24@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 1 comments

hi,

i built a new pc last week.
my components are:

Gigabyte B850M GAMING X WIFI6E
ryzen 8600g
ram: G. SKILL 16GB DDR5 6000MT/s CL36 Aegis 5 (just one stick in the second slot from the cpu)
my psu is tier A on the psu tier list
no dedicated gpu

i did activate expo 1 day after i built the pc and immediately got 6000 MT/s speed with no problems (maybe u need to know that).

today my pc was running idle and before i came back, it restarted and was stuck on boot with dram light on. i force-shut it down and then turned the psu off and clicked on the power button multiple times and held it down too. After that it started normally.
my questions are:

what could have caused that?
what should i do? should i worry about something or about it might happen again or something worse?

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N0body@reddit

Hard to tell what caused that. Maybe your system is not stable with EXPO enabled. Some combinations of CPU, mobo, RAM and a bit of bad luck and it won't be stable by just enabling expo in the bios. Manually setting up RAM timing might help. Updating bios to the latest version if you are on an old one is also a good idea. Those updates often improve compatibility etc.

But before that I would check reliability history in windows ( search for "View reliability history" in start menu or go to Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Security and Maintenance\Reliability Monitor ). That might tell you what process failed when system restarted.

I would also run some stress tests like OCCT https://www.ocbase.com/ You can run 1h tests for free, and as many of them as you like, no need to purchase anything. Maybe run MemTest86 (bootable version is the best, not the windows app), this is a definitive way to check if RAM is stable.