[SOLVED] Asus Motherboard - One ram slot working?

[Lew7989]

I’m building my friend a PC, I’ve got an Asus H81, with a 4790 & 16gb of Ballistix 1600mhz ram. For some reason the second ram slot doesn’t work on the motherboard. Both sticks of ram work in slot 1, but neither will work in slot 2.

The PC boots but doesn’t display anything with both sticks installed, then sometimes it tries to boot, shuts off and continues in a loop. I’ve turned XMP on, and still the same case.

When I clear the second slot and leave one stick in slot one, it boots up but comes up with “Overclocking Failed” then makes me load up the bios. Is there any solutions to this?
Thanks in advance

 

[RememberThe5th]

Try to flash bios, if it was second hand and there was some overclocking it may cause that issues.

For my instance, my motherboard would refuse to work with second stick of ram since i have 4 slots i would put in every slot that specific ram until it would boot, save&exit and then shut down and insert the second ram and it works like clock till this day.

Also try to clear cmos every time when it fails to boot in second slot.

To mention also, in rare occasion, if it failed to post as in your doesnt display try to hit restart button once and wait 30s to 1 min.

 

[justin.m.beauvais]

Another thing you might try, but as pretty much a last resort, is reseating the CPU. I've seen sometimes that a non-funtional RAM slot can be a symptom of the CPU being slightly off in its alignment causing it to not make good contact with all the necessary pins. It could be freaking out due to some instability caused by that.

 

[Lew7989]

Another thing you might try, but as pretty much a last resort, is reseating the CPU. I've seen sometimes that a non-funtional RAM slot can be a symptom of the CPU being slightly off in its alignment causing it to not make good contact with all the necessary pins. It could be freaking out due to some instability caused by that.

So I tried everything as mentioned above, and finally tried reseating the CPU. And that was actually the whole issue. I think a few pins weren’t touching. Thank you for your help

 

[justin.m.beauvais]

So I tried everything as mentioned above, and finally tried reseating the CPU. And that was actually the whole issue. I think a few pins weren’t touching. Thank you for your help

Glad to have helped!