cavsct94 Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 I've built my son a gaming PC on an ASRock B450M motherboard with Vengeance LPX 2 x 8 GB 2400MHz RAM (16GB total). When I installed a new SSD recently, I went into the BIOS and noted that it is showing the RAM as 8 GB x 1 GB instead of 8 GB x 8 GB. I rotated them in slots 2 and 4 and it indeed shows that one of the sticks shows as 1GB in now the other slot. I checked settings in BIOS and they seem to be correct. Any ideas? Thanks in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Computer Guy Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 I've built my son a gaming PC on an ASRock B450M motherboard with Vengeance LPX 2 x 8 GB 2400MHz RAM (16GB total). When I installed a new SSD recently, I went into the BIOS and noted that it is showing the RAM as 8 GB x 1 GB instead of 8 GB x 8 GB. I rotated them in slots 2 and 4 and it indeed shows that one of the sticks shows as 1GB in now the other slot. I checked settings in BIOS and they seem to be correct. Any ideas? Thanks in advance! Try the sticks individually in A2 and see if they report correctly by themselves. I had a problem once where a stick didn't seat properly. For some reason asrock opted to make one side of the ram slot fixed instead of latching and I find it takes a bit more effort to seat the ram properly. I have that board b450m (pro not steel legend) with NVMe (on primary) and SATA's (ssd and cdrom) installed. What BIOS version are you at and what cpu? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavsct94 Posted July 14, 2020 Author Share Posted July 14, 2020 Hello and thanks for the reply! It reports 1GB no matter which slot I place it in. I updated to the latest BIOS from Asrock's site and it has an AMD Ryzen 5 1600. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Computer Guy Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Hello and thanks for the reply! It reports 1GB no matter which slot I place it in. I updated to the latest BIOS from Asrock's site and it has an AMD Ryzen 5 1600. You might have a bad stick I guess. Does the OS report 16GB or 9GB total? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavsct94 Posted July 15, 2020 Author Share Posted July 15, 2020 9GB total... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Computer Guy Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Seems like you might need to get a replacement kit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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