PC Start up issue

[crispyboi715]

Hey all! I’ve been having this issue with my pc for months now and I can’t quite figure it out. Any advice or thoughts are greatly appreciated. At the end I will list all of my components and hardware.

When I turn on my PC for the first time (after about 24 hours) my motherboard’s loading screen (Arsenal Gaming) will begin load up sequence. During the loading stage it freezes and my monitor loses signal. There are several other scenarios all related to startup that it will freeze and I’ll have to restart. Sometimes it gets to the Windows login screen, sometimes while entering password, sometimes while motherboard loading screen is up. I’m just trying to paint the picture that it’s always at some point just after powering on.

Now upon restarting after the freeze my computer runs perfectly fine without a single glitch or problem whatsoever. No software or hardware malfunctions. Everything runs perfectly.

So far I have completely wiped my hard drive of all partitions, did a fresh install of Windows 10 (several times actually), took apart my pc and rebuilt it, purchased a new Power Supply, checked my wall outlet for proper electricity and spent hours researching and trying to figure it out.

I’ll also add that I built this pc around May of this year and it ran perfectly for 2 months until I moved. I packed it in the box that my tower case came in so it was really snug and safe.

I don’t know what to do anymore to try solve this issue and it’s driving me nuts. Thank you in advance for any help.

CPU	Ryzen 5 3600
GPU	GIGABYTE Radeon RX 5600 XT
Motherboard	MSI B450 Tomahawk Max
RAM	G.SKILL TridentZ RGB Series 16GB (2 x 8GB)
SSD	SAMSUNG 860 EVO Series 2.5" 500GB
HDD	Seagate BarraCuda ST2000DM008 2TB
PSU	Corsair RMX750x 80+Gold 750W
Tower	Thermaltake Core G21

[Bruce]

check for BIOS updates for the motherboard at this stage.
and only one it with one of the memory sticks for a few boots.
if the problem persists, change over and run it on the other one for a while.

[crispyboi715]

check for BIOS updates for the motherboard at this stage.
and only one it with one of the memory sticks for a few boots.
if the problem persists, change over and run it on the other one for a while.

Hey! So I removed the 2nd RAM stick and booted. Prompt came up that the configuration was different and had to go to setup. So I did and exited BIOS. It then started up just fine. Too early to say that this was the fix I’ve been looking for but I’m just curious.. What about booting with only 1 stick of RAM would fix this issue? Thanks again.

[Bruce]

run it for a few days to see if it’s all good.
if so, then take out that stick of memory and them just use the other one for a few days and see what happens.
the theory is either one of the sticks is faulty or the system doesn’t like dual channel memory (for whatever reason).

[crispyboi715]

run it for a few days to see if it’s all good.
if so, then take out that stick of memory and them just use the other one for a few days and see what happens.
the theory is either one of the sticks is faulty or the system doesn’t like dual channel memory (for whatever reason).

hello again there bruce. looks like that was not the fix. the usual problem occurred today with one stick in place. bummer

[Bruce]

try swapping sticks and seeing if it runs only using the other one now.
did you check for BIOS updates?

[veeg]

Any updates?

[crispyboi715]

I’ve tried both sticks independently in both slots and unfortunately nothing has changed. I have the most current version of my BIOS also. Scratching my head here lol.

[veeg]

@Bruce

[Bruce]

sorry, I’m out of ideas.

you have wiped the drives, fresh installed Windows, ran on one stick, replaced the PSU.
so disregarding both sticks being bad that would turn your attention to the mobo.
but with the PC behaving fine for the 2nd boot, that theory doesn’t hold water.

annoying as it is, you have at least a working band-aid solution to the issue.