Question Only one RAM stick working at a slower speed

[mandeep101]

I have a Ryzen 7 1700x with a GTX 1070

I have 3 different RAM sticks that I have mixed, matched and swapped but the result is always the same, the speed of the RAM continues to run at 2133 (The Sticks are 2666, 2666 and 3000 respectively). Also, only one RAM stick shows as working memory with the other half being Hardware Reserved. When running only one RAM stick, only a couple of mb is Hardware Reserved.

And yes, the BIOS picks up both ram sticks, none of the RAM sticks are dead and the BIOS is up to date.

 

[rgd1101]

return all, buy a ram kit

 

[mandeep101]

return all, buy a ram kit

I mean one of them is a RAM kit, I only got the third to test if it was a problem with one of the sticks, spoiler alert, it didn't seem to be.

 

[rgd1101]

exact model of the ram kit?
make and model of the motherboard?

remove that third one.

 

[mandeep101]

exact model of the ram kit?
make and model of the motherboard?

remove that third one.

Vengeance LED 2666
Motherboard is Asus X370

 

[mandeep101]

exact model of the ram kit?
make and model of the motherboard?

remove that third one.

The third is also a vengeance LED, but 3000

 

[rgd1101]

turn on docp/xmp memory profile in bios?

 

[mandeep101]

turn on docp/xmp memory profile in bios?

Tried, system starts booting into safe mode

 

[rgd1101]

Tried, system starts booting into safe mode

so it working or what about safe mode?

 

[mandeep101]

so it working or what about safe mode?

It basically tries to boot 3 times before giving me the American Megatrends screen that makes me F1 back to my bios

 

[mandeep101]

so it working or what about safe mode?

Tried booting with docp again and now the computer won't turn on, it will power up but the monitors, keyboard or my two mice aren't being powered on (I know by the LEDs), I am going to assume this is a BIOS fault