threadripper ram problem (jbmerrill)

Good day,

I still have large amounts of 'hardware reserved' RAM and guess I am going to have to RMA the motherboard.

It appears that the only mem slots that are good, are the a1,and a2 slots giving 32gb usable RAM. None of the others will post a single stick or supply usable memory??? This seems almost too hard to believe, but that seems to be the case.

This will be a real pain to tear the comp all apart for this, but I guess it needs to be done.

I was told by Newegg that I can RMA the RAM if I choose and get a full refund, but I really don't want to because it seems to be fine, and I like the RGB.

Also, I have been given an RMA # for the motherboard by ASRock, but need time to do things.

Will be thinking about all this as I am at work now.

Thanks so much for all your replies.

Bryan

I wanted that board from the beginning, but decided to go with the ASRock Professional due to the poor reviews of the Zenith Extreme, and the good reviews of the ASRock on Newegg.

Now, unfortunately, my case is only an ATX case, but the Zenith is an EATX, so I don't believe it would fit.

Man this stuff get complex.

Thanks, and let me know if any further advice.

Bryan

sorry not be online for a few days
and just wrote out a long reply to have a bloody bsod from windows (ever since the stupid update for intel cpus my system has been getting dumbass bsod events)

anyways back to you
a few things worry me
1) when using two sticks of ram it should be in slot a2 and b2 (not a1 and a2) these slots should at this stage in am4/tr be able to boot any old ram at least at 2133mhz

2) now you mentioned also ram speed the default and testing/stable speed of your ram is 2133
clr cmos> set bios defaults> ram speed = 2133

3) you noticed bent pins ???????  one of the most common issues with a bent pin usually is problems with ram

i suggest this path
load two of your sticks in slot a2 and b2 try to boot
if it boots check it displays ram at 32gb AND ram set in dual channel mode @ 2133mhz

if not goto save and exit page of bios and find set optimised/safe /default option

if and when we get a boot showing slot a2 and b2 working correctly at 2133 and dual channel we can try and move on

if not then i do suggest rma

i would go with the rma of the board

i would hold onto the ram myself

the sticks are basically no different from the flarex apart from heatspreaders

this amd ready gskill ram isnt quite as foolproof as gskill would have you believe
BOTH tridentz and flarex still need minor tweaking to work well on amd

i must disagree with your disagreement

the 3200cl14 flarex does seem to have identical timings as tridentz 3200cl14

and they both have samsung b dies ,so where is the difference?

and flarex have some good gains with minor tweaking including lower boot times

so as i said and still stand by
"need tweaking to work well"
working stable and working well are two different things
timings like trfc/tfaw/tcke etc all are able to run much tighter even at higher speeds of ram and one or two subtimings generally get faster boot and better stability by have very slightly looser timings set