Half System Reserved Memory + Half Memory Speed

[phillpower2]

Has the RAM in this build ever worked in dual channel since you got it

You missed answering the above for us.

That`s a stroke of luck you having a compatible Sempron CPU.

[TheDiagGuy]

Honestly, I don’t know how to check to see if it’s working in dual channel. I seem to remember userbenchmark saying that it was running in dual channel, but I’ll have to check when I get home. Is that something you can check in the BIOS?
Yeah, I keep that sempron cpu as a tester for am3 builds.

[phillpower2]

Speccy is telling us that the RAM is only working in single channel and the high memory usage backs it up.

We can confirm this by you running CPU_Z and uploading a screenshot of the RAM info for us, download the free version from here

[TheDiagGuy]

Here’s speccy with an Athlon processor that I thought may have been causing a no post in another rig. Guess the Athlon isn’t the problem in that rig. Still half speed (which is even lower because this Athlon is a tortoise with ram) and capacity and single channel.

http://speccy.piriform.com/results/GNOB4GcLuzz151FY4pUWGS8

Here’s a speccy with similar Patriot Ram 1600 8 Gigs 2x4 in slots 1 and 2 (Which has worked in dual channel in another rig)

http://speccy.piriform.com/results/OPq7gwSR6tSUuRRUgr1gSWt

It feels like a motherboard…[ATTACH type=“full”]5518[/ATTACH]

[TheDiagGuy]

Still unable to edit after 5 minutes. I apologize for the double post.

Here’s a Speccy of the Pny RAM in an intel Rig. Dual Channel. No reserved memory.

http://speccy.piriform.com/results/5DJPxyrSw0zgNqMWyscjtQf

[phillpower2]

The RAM has never been a suspect tbh as it works as it should albeit only at 50% of what it is capable of but that is not down to the RAM itself.

The results of your testing using an alternative CPU do point towards the MB and primarily the BIOS chip I`m afraid.

[TheDiagGuy]

Working on finding another working motherboard. Already got another bad one that had no power to the x16 lanes. That one was an MSI 970a-g43. Next victim will be a Biostar TA970XE. Don’t really like this one though since it only has a 4pin CPU power and no front USB 3.0 header. Will post once I have another good motherboard running.

[TheDiagGuy]

Another Motherboard issue… No video output and all the fans turn on so I know I have some kind of power on the x16 lanes. (The Biostar TA970XE ) This one gives me beep codes though. It beeps 4 times and then has a messed up beep and then beeps 13 times. Looked up in the manual. 4 is “Flash programming successful” 5 is “File read error” and 13 is “BIOS ROM image mismatch (file layout does not match image present in flash device)”. According to the debug LED’s there is a “VGA Error.” This is with literally just ATX power, CPU power, Athlon CPU (because this board has to have a BIOS update to accept Vishera CPU’s), 1 stick of RAM in the correct slot, the R7 250 with HDMI cable, and a keyboard plugged in. Using the button on the motherboard to power on and off. Kind of fed up to be honest… I’m putting it all away and gonna try again tomorrow. Anyone wanna recycle some gold? Lol.

[phillpower2]

Sounds like my garage with so many different parts, where are you getting them all from!

[phillpower2]

Any update for us?

[TheDiagGuy]

The guy I got the two bad boards off of is working on getting me another board.

[phillpower2]

A fully working one I hope and no doubt the first thing that you will be checking is the dual channel function.

[TheDiagGuy]

Fingers crossed lol. A buddy of mine is encouraging me to try the Biostar one again with the onboard graphics. Not sure why I didn’t try that.

[phillpower2]

Biostar TA970XE

This Biostar, if yes, it has no onboard video according to the specs here

[TheDiagGuy]

Lol. Indeed. Saved me from taking it out of the box again haha.