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 was in "hardware reserved."
The BIOS showed no problems, all 16GB were there. I've installed the ram in the correct slots (according to the manuel).
I've spent the past couple days trying everything I could find online about this: I updated the bios, cleared the cmos, reinstalled windows, unchecked max memory in msconfig, each stick tested properly in memtest86, I played around with LOST of bios ram settings to see if anything would change. tried swapping slots, and tried the windows memory diagnose tool. Nothing helped. Interestingly, the mobo goes into a looping reset, and won't boot, when there is only one stick installed, no matter the slot.
Honestly I'm out of options. The only other thing I could think of is that the ram I got in not on the mobo's QVL. But on my old mobo (Gigabyte) the memory was not on the QVL list and it worked great! Is it just that Gigabyte's boards don't care as much about the ram as ASRocks's do? Is it just that I'm dumb for ignoring the QVL? I want to know for sure because I don't want to buy more ram just to find that the issue is still there.
The BIOS showed no problems, all 16GB were there. I've installed the ram in the correct slots (according to the manuel).
I've spent the past couple days trying everything I could find online about this: I updated the bios, cleared the cmos, reinstalled windows, unchecked max memory in msconfig, each stick tested properly in memtest86, I played around with LOST of bios ram settings to see if anything would change. tried swapping slots, and tried the windows memory diagnose tool. Nothing helped. Interestingly, the mobo goes into a looping reset, and won't boot, when there is only one stick installed, no matter the slot.
Honestly I'm out of options. The only other thing I could think of is that the ram I got in not on the mobo's QVL. But on my old mobo (Gigabyte) the memory was not on the QVL list and it worked great! Is it just that Gigabyte's boards don't care as much about the ram as ASRocks's do? Is it just that I'm dumb for ignoring the QVL? I want to know for sure because I don't want to buy more ram just to find that the issue is still there.