Can Marvel Rivals or Steam in general kill my PC or is something else happening here?

Me and my dad built a PC for Christmas and yesterday I tried to open Marvel Rivals (which has had no problem running on my PC this whole time) and my screen completely froze after going into the start screen. After trying to see what the issue was (updating drivers and OS) it has just gotten worse. Later I tried to just let it load by itself and I get blue screened and my PC restarts. I try to open a different Steam game and now my computer barely turns on. The fans spin but have no RGB and the RGB on the RAM turns on but that’s it. After more inspections I see a red light on the motherboard that was definitely not there before.
Specs: gigabyte eagle x870 wifi7 motherboard, rtx 4070 GPU, Ryzen 5 9600X CPU

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Somethings gone wrong on a hardware level for sure. That’s what the indicators mean. Now, it could be a loose cable, or ram not fully seated, video card etc. So check everything is pushed in their proper spots properly and haven’t come loose.

Now in regards to cause, it could just be that you unfortunately received a bad piece of ram or other hardware, it does happen, typically what we have warranties for. Just have to identify the part, trial and error or a computer technician.

Marvel Rivals / Steam killing a PC would be like if you had a chainsaw for cutting wood and asked if wood could kill the chainsaw. Well, technically yes, using it can cause parts to wear down or failures to occur if they’re damaged, but you’re just using it so without any defects, no you shouldn’t have a problem with Steam or Marvel Rivals. You’re using it for what it’s intended for.

Take a look where the red light is, I bet it’s from the boot sequence indicators and shows that ur cpu doesn’t boot

First, unplug your PC and take off the CPU, check for bent pins

Baylen said:
Take a look where the red light is, I bet it’s from the boot sequence indicators and shows that ur cpu doesn’t boot

First, unplug your PC and take off the CPU, check for bent pins

No, the light says it’s on “DRAM” but I’ve already tried reseating the RAM and it had no effect

@Alex_1
One of the RAM sticks may be bad. Boot into BIOS and check the RAM information. If you have 2x32GB for example, make sure both sticks are reading as 32GB and their speeds are the same. You can also try booting with only one RAM stick at a time to see if the motherboard indicator light only happens with the (presumably bad) one.

Also, do you have the RAM sticks plugged into the right slots? On your motherboard, they should be plugged into the DDR5_A2 and DDR5_B2 slots. If you count them starting at the CPU, those are slots 2 and 4.

@Bright
I can’t boot into the bios, I have tried multiple different displays and peripherals but none of them will participate. As for the ram, yes they are in the correct spots and I have 2 32GB of Kingston fury RAM

@Alex_1
When you turn the PC on, does anything at all come up on the screen, or do you have no display at all? If no display, take the stick of RAM out of DDR5_B2 and try booting. If it doesn’t work, switch it with the stick in DDR5_A2 and try again.

@Alex_1
Pull power from the tower then hold power button down for thirty seconds. This clears up any residual errors on your board. See if that helps you get into bios. If that doesn’t work, I would try a cmos reset.

@Sarah
Nothing happened, I’m starting to lose hope, I have tried reseating RAM I’ve tried putting them into different slots one at a time, all attempts have led to the red light, upon turning it on, there is a red light for CPU which quickly turns into the red light for DRAM.

@Alex_1
Don’t lose hope man. This happens from time to time. I’ve built tons of PCs in my time. Either a bad board or bad ram. Cheaper and easier to buy some cheap ram sticks to test. Good luck to ya.

P.S. I also built my son’s PC with him and ran into the red ram light on his newest build. Took it to a repair place as I got frustrated and all they did was reseat the ram and it worked. Go figure.

@Alex_1
Try this:
Option 1: remove one ram stick and see how it goes. If you don’t boot up, get it back and try removing another over
Option 2: change the slots your ram is inserted into (like, if it’s in 1 and 3 move it to 2 and 4)

A game cannot “kill” your PC. Steam cannot “kill” your PC.

Your PC might malfunction while running a game, the same as it might malfunction while doing any other task. A PC that never does anything will never malfunction because it doesn’t function at all. To ensure your PC works perfectly forever, never use it!

Saying a game “killed” your PC would be like saying that road killed your car if your engine malfunctioned while you were driving.

@LIZAH
Sorry I just don’t really know what term to use and it seemed like all this happened right after I opened Marvel Rivals, after all I’ve only really had it for a month