Recent content by Trevorar5111

I just wanted to makes this quick update, the issue started happening AGAIN (only 8 of 16GB were usable). But found out what the problem was this time pretty quickly. It's the same ASRock B450M Pro 4 as last time, the motherboard I had replaced the faulty one with. This may have been what was...

Hi, thanks for your help. I tried what you said, one stick at a time. I had the same problem and PC would not boot with one stick of RAM in. I also tried to reseat the CPU but with no luck. I ended up replacing the board a few days ago and turns out that solved the problem. Not sure where the...

I thought I should mention it was the Windows Resource Monitor and Task Manager that reported that only half the ram was usable.

So my PC is over 4 year old and I wanted to give it it's first real upgrade. I'm switching to an AMD Ryzen 2600 cpu, ASRock B450M Pro 4 mobo, and Corsair Vengeance DDR4 2x8GB 2933MHz ram. Everything's gone smoothly up until I noticed that only half the memory was "usable" while the other half...