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Some ideas just in case... - Even if the RAM modules are not faulty, ECC is not officially supported by your CPU and motherboard, right? So this could be a pro

by d_tr 5y ago

Some ideas just in case... - Even if the RAM modules are not faulty, ECC is not officially supported by your CPU and motherboard, right? So this could be a problem... They might also not be correctly configured, so check the UEFI settings. - Regarding the GPU, you could try lowering your PCIe mode to a slower one, especially if you are using a riser cable. - I have had overly bent SATA cables cause complete freezes every few hours on a brand new PC. I luckily got the hint quickly because the HDD LED was staying lit. - What about the quality of the power going into your PSU? - Have you tried rebooting more gracefully with the SysRq commands?

codetrotter 5y ago
> Even if the RAM modules are not faulty, ECC is not officially supported by your CPU and motherboard, right? Correct. > So this could be a problem... They might also not be correctly configured, so check the UEFI settings. Most of the settings in UEFI that I can find about RAM are related to overclocking, and I am not using those features. But it may well be as you say that using ECC RAM with a non-ECC motherboard could cause problems. > I have had overly bent SATA cables cause complete freezes every few hours on a brand new PC. I luckily got the hint quickly because the HDD LED was staying lit. My SATA cables are cheap ones I bought off of eBay. I may try and replace them. > What about the quality of the power going into your PSU? The freezing has happened in all of the different places I have lived during this time, so I don’t so. Unless the power cord could be doing something, but the power cord looks fine on the outside at least. > Have you tried rebooting more gracefully with the SysRq commands? Going to try that in the future. Thank you.
- codetrotter 5y ago
  > > Even if the RAM modules are not faulty, ECC is not officially supported by your CPU and motherboard, right? > Correct. I should also add to this for the record, that my mistake here was that when I bought the system, I checked to see that Ryzen 7 1700 supports ECC RAM, but that I was unaware that the motherboard also needed to support it in order for ECC to work. Someone in a sibling comment pointed me to some links and gave me some info about some UEFI settings to try along with some kernel boot arguments and I've applied these. Hopefully it will be enough to take care of the issue, or at least to improve the stability a bit. But if the system continues to be unstable then I will probably try and save up a bit of money to replace the RAM that I have with non-ECC RAM instead, or alternatively that I save up money for a new motherboard which supports both ECC RAM and my current CPU as well as being able to host a newer generation of Ryzen CPU that I can then buy further into the future. Also, I went to an electronics store today after reading your comment and bought a new SATA cable that I now use instead of the one that I had.

by d_tr 5y ago

codetrotter 5y ago

> Even if the RAM modules are not faulty, ECC is not officially supported by your CPU and motherboard, right? Correct. > So this could be a problem... They might also not be correctly configured, so check the UEFI settings. Most of the settings in UEFI that I can find about RAM are related to overclocking, and I am not using those features. But it may well be as you say that using ECC RAM with a non-ECC motherboard could cause problems. > I have had overly bent SATA cables cause complete freezes every few hours on a brand new PC. I luckily got the hint quickly because the HDD LED was staying lit. My SATA cables are cheap ones I bought off of eBay. I may try and replace them. > What about the quality of the power going into your PSU? The freezing has happened in all of the different places I have lived during this time, so I don’t so. Unless the power cord could be doing something, but the power cord looks fine on the outside at least. > Have you tried rebooting more gracefully with the SysRq commands? Going to try that in the future. Thank you.

codetrotter 5y ago
> > Even if the RAM modules are not faulty, ECC is not officially supported by your CPU and motherboard, right? > Correct. I should also add to this for the record, that my mistake here was that when I bought the system, I checked to see that Ryzen 7 1700 supports ECC RAM, but that I was unaware that the motherboard also needed to support it in order for ECC to work. Someone in a sibling comment pointed me to some links and gave me some info about some UEFI settings to try along with some kernel boot arguments and I've applied these. Hopefully it will be enough to take care of the issue, or at least to improve the stability a bit. But if the system continues to be unstable then I will probably try and save up a bit of money to replace the RAM that I have with non-ECC RAM instead, or alternatively that I save up money for a new motherboard which supports both ECC RAM and my current CPU as well as being able to host a newer generation of Ryzen CPU that I can then buy further into the future. Also, I went to an electronics store today after reading your comment and bought a new SATA cable that I now use instead of the one that I had.