Orange DRAM 1 year old build
Posted by Czelious@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 12 comments
Hello!
Yesterday morning I woke up and my PC was on but not responsive (no image on monitors) and had an orange dram light. Nothing weird has happened before so it was kind of a surprise.
Troubleshooting I did was
* Tested 1 RAM stick at the time in every slot.
* Reset CMOS battery.
* Replace CMOS battery.
* Unplug GPU and put the DP cable for a monitor into the motherboard (CPU).
Nothing has been overclocked (Except EXPO profile for RAM).
At this point I'm suspecting MOBO, so the company I bought the parts from wrote up a fault report and I can send the motherboard in for warranty (after their tests).
So I went to a store and just bought a board to see if that was the issue before sending my old away.
Sure enough, the PC sits on orange DRAM light for about 2-5min and then starts up. Asks me the fTPM question due to some corruption, I enable EXPO and then it just works.
Play a bit of games and watch youtube.
Fast-forward to today start up PC then go make breakfast, when I get back to PC its stuck on white VGA light, I restart PC and get an orange DRAM so I wait a few minutes before hitting the power switch on the PSU..
I wait for a bit and then start the PC, orange DRAM again for around 5 minutes then it starts up and saying my BIOS was reset, I enable EXPO again and it starts up normally.
Any ideas? Is it possible my mobo and another component broke at the same time? (PSU or CPU most likely in that case?)
PC Specs
*Old Mobo - ASUS ROG STRIX B850-f Gaming
*New Mobo - ASUS TUF Gaming B850-PLUS
*CPU - AMD Ryzen 9800X3D
*GPU - PowerColor 7800XT Red Devil Limited Edition
*RAM - G.Skill Trident Z5 NEO DDR5 6400MHz 32GB (Should be compatible with Mobo if I read right on ASUS website)
*PSU - Corsair RM1000e (1000W)
*Storage - Samsung M.2 980 Pro, 990 Pro+, 970 EVO. SSDs Samsung 870 and PNY something. (All healthy according to samsung magician.
Borigh@reddit
I think the orange light my be on when memory training is happening, and that can take 30 minutes or more in extreme cases. Happened to me this morning after a recent CPU swap and very little computer downtime: I think it got stuck memory training. (I didn't time it, but I think I left it for well over 30 minutes).
Hard booting, going into safe mode, and rebooting seemed to fix the issue, but I won't be shocked if I get hit with it again. Might even try to trigger it manually when I have time, just to see how long it takes with my configuration.
Snow_Uk@reddit
last time I got memory training was when I moved my system into a new case
but never took more than 5 minutes on my system
Borigh@reddit
Yeah, it was weird for me, but this was after a ftpm trigger from a CPU swap, and then not actually doing a full shut down for a couple days (only restarts for testing).
Maybe my CPU CO offset is unstable, maybe it's maybelline, but it restarted properly after the hard boot into safe mode, and memory training can take a really long time in extreme cases.
Czelious@reddit (OP)
Yeah maybe, never had that happen so I am unsure, maybe I will try to turn my PC off and then just let it sit to see if it trains them then.
I left the PC on with the old motherboard for hours and then off for hours etc.
New motherboard takes forever to start until i hit the switch on the PSU it then takes 5-ish minutes until I get to the screen that says BIOS was reset and then it after hitting Save and Exit it starts up normally every time i turn the pc off and try to start it again.
The company I bought the parts from recommended me to send them the CPU, RAM and MOBO now so they can troubleshoot them and RMA the faulty part/parts. But it will take a while.
braydon125@reddit
If you're unplugging it completely it will train memory every time.
Czelious@reddit (OP)
Unplugging as in PSU or removing RAM stick?
I started PC yesterday took a while for it to boot, today it did the same, I guess it wouldve been training yesterday and today shouldve started normally then since I did not unplug or remove RAM?
braydon125@reddit
I mean power. Every time the board is without power completely it re trains the memory
braydon125@reddit
Or flipping psu switch
lcirufe@reddit
I had a similar issue, but it was only when dual-booting linux. The fix I found was to disable Fast Startup in Windows (not Fast Boot in the bios, different things).
The reason apparently is that Windows with Fast Startup doesn’t fully turn off the motherboard and instead goes into a hybrid S4 (hibernate) + S5 (shutdown) state and confuses the memory controller. It’s mostly problematic on dual boot systems but it might be worth a try.
Czelious@reddit (OP)
Alright, I do not have dual boot, but I will try it just to see.
Thank you.
Serious_Newspaper823@reddit
I suspect the memory controller on your cpu isnt able to hold 6400MT. Not unusual on AM5. If you have an 6000MT Expo, try that. With your cpu you shouldnt lose significant performance.
Czelious@reddit (OP)
I did try to completely turn off EXPO and running them at 4800MHz and it did the same thing unfortunately.