So I figured out what happened to my computer

Yesterday I replaced my heatsink, after that my PC wouldn't boot right, like everything was going to pot. And apparently, this whole time, the RAM went bad. So I have dual-channel RAM, each RAM stick is 8GB. So my PC says I have 32GB installed, but only 24GB useable. SO, to me it means that all 4 RAM slots are seeing all 4 chips, but it's not recognizing one of the 8GB RAM sticks.

So getting it replaced soon. I don't know what I would do without this PC. I have my laptop but that's on Win7 still. But yeah the panic was real on this one. UGH!!! This is why the next PC I purchase, will be a prebuilt, no more of this build your own PC. It's just too much for me to deal with.

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SooperSarah

Stupid question but have you tried to reseat each stick?

twiigss · M

@SooperSarah Yea so I ended up taking every stick out, and even went as far as putting different sticks in different slots, one of the sticks has got to be bad. But I have 2 new sticks coming of the same exact thing I have now. The black channel ram slots are recognizing 16gb total, but the blue channel is only recognizing 8gb.