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muziqaz 
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 Topic: New build of B450M Pro4 won't boot with 2x ramPosted: 12 Jan 2021 at 4:41pm |
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I wish they would test their BIOSes at same standard as they do their hardware :D :D
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Posted: 12 Jan 2021 at 4:11pm |
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That is great news, at least you can return the CPU with confidence. It is all
too common these days to get a DOA or partially working CPU out of the box. As dies shrink more and more the propensity for failure gets higher. Any time I see RAM not detecting in one of the channels the CPU is usually the first place I check. Knowing how motherboard manufacturers test their boards (not just ASRock), it is unlikely to be a board defect, not without some kind of physical damage to the board caused by shipping etc. There are some interesting videos on youtube about board manufacture for anyone interested. The techniques are mostly identical across all brands. |
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Posted: 12 Jan 2021 at 3:11pm |
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What CPU you had?
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Posted: 12 Jan 2021 at 12:32pm |
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Oddly, a co-working who recently upgraded his system had a spare Ryzen 5 3600 sitting on his shelf. I popped it in - and everything started working. Loaded XMP profile, rebooted and the system is running with 16GB at full speed.
Looks like it was a bad CPU after all! |
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Posted: 12 Jan 2021 at 5:21am |
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The CPU was from Amazon and the mobo from Newegg. Amazon replacement will be a lot faster. Is it worth trying the CPU first and then the mobo if that doesn't fix it? Is there any way a defect on the mobo could "break" the CPU?
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Posted: 12 Jan 2021 at 5:13am |
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That is a real pain, there is no way to know if the issue is the CPU or the board.
Either could be responsible. If you do RMA, RMA both CPU and board to be sure. It could be a bad IMC (integrated memory controller) in the CPU or a defect on the slots/circuitry. I would lean more toward bad IMC as this is sadly pretty common on the CPU but if you have the option, RMA both. |
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Posted: 12 Jan 2021 at 4:33am |
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System boots with a single stick in A1 or A2, but three beeps and no booting with a single stick in B1 or B2. Is it even supposed to boot with memory only in a B1 or B2 slot?
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Posted: 12 Jan 2021 at 2:22am |
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And you went through all the RAM slots with single stick, to rule out the slot damage?
If yes, RMA might be you only option :( |
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I've tried all of this steps. System will boot with either single stick. I can load XMP profile and reboot and the settings stick. With XMP loaded I cannot change the voltage to 1.36. With both sticks in A2/B2 it will never boot. I just tried both sticks in A1/A2 and it boots, but of course they are not in dual channel mode in this config.
Something is faulty. Do I RMA everything to get a working system? |
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Posted: 11 Jan 2021 at 6:56pm |
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Have you tried both sticks separately? Try one stick in, if it boots, try second one on its own, to make sure one if them is not dead.
If both are alive, boot into BIOS just with one of them installed. Reset BIOS to factory default. Then Set VRAM to whatever memory manufacturer recommends for your sticks, which should be 1.35v. You can even set it to 1.36v. Switch off the PC, remove power cable, install the second stick (preferably both sticks in A2/B2 slots). Try starting the PC then. Hopefully it will boot up, and you can adjust memory clocks further. If it fails to boot, then it's possible that motherboard is faulty |
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