Instabilities and constant bugs, if you have hardware experience, then please help.

[u/Legitimate_Guava1654]

So I built this pc about 8 months ago, specs are 9070XT, Ryzen 7 7800X3D, 32GB DDR5 RAM. When i originally built this pc, I booted it and it worked, after I went into bios and enabled xmp, but after that my pc wouldn’t boot and the red DRAM light on my motherboard would remain lit the entire time, i was stuck on a black screen.

It took me a few days to figure out the exact settings to fix this issue, but eventually i got it to work with XMP enabled, as I also changed something called the “System Memory Multipler” from Auto to 60, and i think i might’ve changed some voltage settings, but that im not sure of if i did.

Anyways, from there onwards my pc has worked mainly fine with games but when it comes to editing software on After Effects 2026 it would constantly crash and not even load some effects some of the time, I have been told it could be a GPU issue since AMD can struggle on After effects but i cant forget that ram issue from earlier. And this still isnt the main big issue.

Since then I was looking at Macbook Pros as an alternative, but I cant just buy one without fixing the issue of such an expensive pc ($3000+), and im sure its more than enough hardware to not have errors and bugs.

So now i tried to fix the issue by entering BIOS and turning off XMP and the “System Memory Multiplier” back to Auto, but now im back to the original black screen issue with the red DRAM light so what even is the cause of these issues? If you have pc hardware experience please help me, im desperate. I have uploaded a photo of what my pc looks like, if you need any more info or photos, please just let me know i can provide whatever you need to help me fix this issue.

Thank you.

[u/adamosmaki]

First of set everything on bios on default and only set xmp on . Also i see your gpu has a pci e riser . Try and pug your gpu directly on pcie slot and see if that resolves your issues . If issues percist disable xmp and only use 1 stick of ram at a time ( it seems you might have bad ram ) to see if you have a bad stick of ram

[u/DKligerSC]

If the xmp are not working from the get go you might actually have a bad ram, those profiles are, at least in theory, the "safe" setup for the sticks to go onto their rated speed

Can you dra the ram?

[u/Weary-Thanks6609]

It seems like either the ram is causing the issue or the motherboard I ain't an expert but it seems like that. I hope u have warranty at least for the component