Hello.

I have recently had some problems with my computer. I moved it into my dorm a few days ago and it wouldn't show any picture on the monitor. I eventually reseated the ram and everything worked.

However, since then it's been acting funny. My computer would sometimes get slow and freeze. Shortly after that my computer would restart altogether. I found out that it was restarting because of a BSOD stop error which said "DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL," which I found out was a memory problem when the computer tries to access memory and has an issue.

So once I found that out, I decided to reseat my ram. Once I did that my computer went back to the whole no signal thing. It simply won't POST. I've tried taking out all of my PCI cards and still nothing. I've disconnected every hard drive, still nothing. If I take out my ram, my motherboard beeps, pauses, beeps and continues to do that. According to what I've read, this shows that my mobo is fine and it's probably a ram problem. When I checked my temps (which I did when my computer started restarting) the video card was at 54 C and the CPU was at 58 C. However, when I took out my ram, it was REALLY hot. It was a lot warmer than the back of my GPU.

Now after reading online I think this is a ram problem. Can someone confirm this or offer some suggestions as to how to fix this? I know it's not my video card because I bought a brand new video card simply to test this and that video card doesn't work either. It's not the monitor because I tested that on another system.

Computer specs:
MOBO: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128376
CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103249
Current RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231145

Anyways, if it is the RAM I'm prefectly fine with replacing it; however, could someone suggest new ram for me if it is in fact the RAM? I don't want to buy cheap RAM and then have this happen again. I'm going to Best Buy tomorrow to get a replacement if this is in fact the RAM.

Thanks a bunch and sorry for the long post.

My monitor stays at "No signal," I cannot run anything.

I've only had this ram for about 7 months. I don't know what would cause this.

If there isn't any RAM in it it beeps, pauses, beeps, and does that continuously. No image, but it beeps. Also, there are no extra standoffs, I checked before I put the motherboard on twice because I was told it could short circuit your motherboard.

It doesn't beep while the ram is in there and if I take the ram out it beeps because it's missing the ram.

Well this has been a weird experience. I was ready to go out and buy new ram and everything, but last night my friend told me that all I would have to do is reset my CMOS. So I figured why not, I don't really have anything to lose. Basically what I did was put a jumper on these 2 prongs that said "CLR_CMOS" and turned on my computer, turned it off, took off the jumper and sure enough, everything was fine.

However, I kept getting the blue screen above which made me still think that the memory was going bad. So I ran that memtest86 that Farmrush posted and it found no errors in either of my sticks of ram. So I thought maybe I could just ignore it and it would go away, but every hour or so my computer would BSOD still. So after further investigation (this took a long time to find) I found out that that error could also mean there's a problem with your network card. I then found out that Bitdefender's firewall was protecting some setting which was causing the blue screen.

I guess I'm just so unlucky to have a bluescreen that MOST of the time means there's a memory problem, and an actual memory problem at the same time that I just jump to conclusions.

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TL;DR? Short story: I fixed it.


HOWEVER, for some reason my boot sequence keeps changing whenever I leave my PC off for an extended period of time. If I restart, it stays the same; when I go to bed and turn my computer off, it resets. It is not a battery problem because I disabled my bios splash screen (Gigabyte motherboard) and that stays off. The boot sequence is the only thing that changes. And yes, I do save the boot sequence to the CMOS when I exit the bios.

Any help?

It doesn't have 3 prongs, it just has 2. I had to use a hard drive jumper to clear it.

Oh, and since you cleared the CMOS your system clock will be wrong. This can cause all sorts of weird problems, so make sure you set that.

Yeah, that caused some certificates to stop working.

But how do I check if my BIOS is up to date?