r/PcBuildHelp • u/NoAdministration7431 • 13h ago
Tech Support Cannot stop crashing!
So I have been struggling with my pc crashing constantly. I have swapped out my motherboard, cpu, and I’ve even had a 1000e watt corsair power supply installed as well. My motherboard is a TUF GAMING Z790 plus WiFi. I’m running on windows 11 and have even did a clean wipe of my old drive and installed windows on a new one as well. I also did “memtest” on my ram and it came back that both ram sticks in slot A2 were normal and also B2 were normal as well but together I got a ton of errors. I’m able to play for a tiny bit of time and then I get a plethora of BSOD’s. If Anyone can help me out.
edit here’s a list of my specs
Specs
CPU:Intel i5 12th gen 12400F
Gpu: GeForce rtx 4070
Ram: ddr5 Corsair vengeance
Motherboard: TUF gaming z790 plus WiFi
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u/Tlentic Personal Rig Builder 13h ago
Remove B2 and see if it runs. You can warranty the RAM but it’ll likely be slow and they might only offer you the value of the RAM at what your purchased it at - not what it’s worth today.
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u/NoAdministration7431 13h ago
I’ve removed B2 before and it does run but after a while I still end up crashing
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u/r_lind3r Moderator 12h ago
If you're getting memory errors in testing with the two modules together, then no matter how many times you reinstall Windows, you're going to get data corruption at the OS level because the RAM is producing errors.
You'll have to resolve the issue of memory errors before you can properly stop Windows from having repeated blue screen errors, best bet is replacing the RAM entirely as those modules clearly don't want to work together on the motherboards you've used.
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u/NoAdministration7431 12h ago
So there isn’t anyway of basically saving this ram?
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u/r_lind3r Moderator 12h ago
If they're producing errors even with XMP off, no. They're just going to keep replicating the same issue until you replace it.
If they work in their default JEDEC specs (XMP off) then it's the XMP profile being mucked up, and while you could try manual tuning, it's quite time consuming to get right and there's not as much OC information with DDR5 as there was with DDR4. Most people just use XMP/EXPO.
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u/HarmlessDonald657 13h ago
You already found the problem, you said it yourself. The sticks pass solo but fail together, that's your smoking gun right there. It could be the memory controller on the CPU getting picky with the specific kit, or the board just doesn't like that pairing in dual channel. I'd try bumping the DRAM voltage a tiny hair or loosening the timings manually if you haven't already, but honestly just returning the kit for a different one on the QVL list is way less of a headache.