Windows 10: Cannot log in after re-seating RAM sticks

I had a random BSOD last night and another one this morning, something “kmode exception not handled”, so I figured as a precaution, I would re-seat the RAM sticks. Went ahead and did that, plugged everything back in and booted up, but when I got to the login screen, clicking anywhere would just make everything all fuzzy and the login window/text box does not appear.

I can still click the Accessibility Options and the shutdown menu, but the login text box never appears and typing my password/hitting enter does nothing either. After a minute or so, the fuzziness will go away and it will display the clock again.

I cannot get to Safe Mode either, when it gets to the screen telling you to press 1-9 or F1-F9 for the options, pressing those keys does nothing and the system just shuts down on its own after a minute.

What happened, and how do I fix this? This is bizarre; never had anything like this happen in the past.

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RAM Upgrade to 32GB, windows 10 won't start

1. Double check with your MB manual if the RAM is on the compatibily list
2. Make sure all the RAM sticks are firmly seated
3. Go into BIOS, under System Status and check for Total Physical RAM. Should be 32GB
4. Most of the time, The RAM voltage is set to Auto, manually set the voltage according to the RAM Spec.
5. If all fails, relax the RAM timing a little bit.

 

 RAM TEST

I've had a few more BSODs, however when I went to create the usual dm log, I noticed it say there were no minidumps. My computer did recently update to Fall Creators, and I don't have the 'Disable automatic deletion of memory dumps when disk space is low' ticked, but the drive isn't even half full.

Anyways, I'm going to try some more troubleshooting steps and wanted to run them by the thread before actually doing them:
- Re-seat graphics card and memory. Already done today, will be doing a test (aka, normal nightly gaming) to see if it crashes.
- Move a crash-prone game to third hard drive and unplug current
- Swap out my 1080 for my old 750TI I still have lying around
- Buy a single 16GB DDR4 RAM stick and use that in a different slot. Unfortunately my cooler covers one of the memory slots, so I can have a max of 3 sticks. If nothing else, I'm upgrading to 32GB of RAM =P Probably last test b/c it involves spending money
- Reinstall Windows

Anyone have a suggested order I should attempt these in? I'm thinking next step is probably either install on third drive and unplug second, or swap graphics cards

 

AMD FX OC'ers Club

That's what the auto setting will do since you're over the 1333 mark it jumps to the next step which isn't listed or officially supported I assume by that ram.

At this point though I would suggest dropping the multi one step or .5 so that we can get something stable and possibly take the heat issue out of the picture for now.