Heya,
I have recently bought myself a new PC. It is now mostly build, only the GPU and storage not in there. I decided to test it before doing much else, so I connected it to the next best screen I got my hands on and tried to get it to go into the BIOS. Upon starting, the fans all rev up and the Debug LED immediately gets past the CPU light. After that, though, it sits on the DRAM light for a while before going back to the CPU light for a bit and right on to the DRAM light again and so on and so on. At no point in the whole process do I get any picture from the system.
After trying to just use a single stick of RAM I concluded that it doesn't work with either. Only when I borrowed a stick of 8GB DDR4 RAM from someone else and put it in did it work and let me get into the BIOS without any trouble.
My question now is, what is the most probable reason for this and what should my next step be? Did I just win the lottery and get two sticks of RAM which both are faulty? Does some part of my build simply not support these two sticks? Most importantly, is there something I can do to get these sticks to work, should I reorder them, or should I order different sticks all together?
Further information:
Motherboard: MSI Z390 A Pro
CPU: Intel i5 9600k
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX
Newer information:
I have managed to start the PC with the borrowed RAM, set the clock speed from Auto to manually on 2133MHz as is the standard for that borrowed RAM.
Then I put in one of mine and put it on 2666MHz as is the seeming maximum for my CPU. That also worked. Only when I put in the second stick in Dual Channel does it not work anymore. I would like to have them in Dual Channel, though. Any ideas?
EDIT:
Even with two of the borrowed RAM sticks the PC refuses to boot as soon as they are both put in Dual Channel. What could the reason for that be?
I have recently bought myself a new PC. It is now mostly build, only the GPU and storage not in there. I decided to test it before doing much else, so I connected it to the next best screen I got my hands on and tried to get it to go into the BIOS. Upon starting, the fans all rev up and the Debug LED immediately gets past the CPU light. After that, though, it sits on the DRAM light for a while before going back to the CPU light for a bit and right on to the DRAM light again and so on and so on. At no point in the whole process do I get any picture from the system.
After trying to just use a single stick of RAM I concluded that it doesn't work with either. Only when I borrowed a stick of 8GB DDR4 RAM from someone else and put it in did it work and let me get into the BIOS without any trouble.
My question now is, what is the most probable reason for this and what should my next step be? Did I just win the lottery and get two sticks of RAM which both are faulty? Does some part of my build simply not support these two sticks? Most importantly, is there something I can do to get these sticks to work, should I reorder them, or should I order different sticks all together?
Further information:
Motherboard: MSI Z390 A Pro
CPU: Intel i5 9600k
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX
Newer information:
I have managed to start the PC with the borrowed RAM, set the clock speed from Auto to manually on 2133MHz as is the standard for that borrowed RAM.
Then I put in one of mine and put it on 2666MHz as is the seeming maximum for my CPU. That also worked. Only when I put in the second stick in Dual Channel does it not work anymore. I would like to have them in Dual Channel, though. Any ideas?
EDIT:
Even with two of the borrowed RAM sticks the PC refuses to boot as soon as they are both put in Dual Channel. What could the reason for that be?
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