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  • GoodbyeEveryone
    PCHF Member
    • May 2024
    • 2

    #1

    Motherboard DRAM Light

    I am building my first PC and I have been having trouble with the motherboard and my RAM. I am using an ASUS TUF Gaming B650 Plus Wifi with a Ryzen 7 7700x CPU and a Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR5 6000MHz 2x24GB sticks. When I put both sticks in the recommended slots (A2 and B2) I get the DRAM light, if I put one stick into B2 it boots into the BIOS page (both sticks work).

    Troubleshooting I have done:
    [ol]
    [li]Reset CMOS by removing the battery and then placing it back[/li][li]Updating the BIOS with the EZ Flashback using a USB drive[/li][li]Initially, the RAM I had bought was not compatible so I bought new RAM that I triple-checked was compatible from the ASUS motherboard support page[/li][/ol]
    How can I test that the motherboard is faulty? And since I have 24 GB of RAM with one stick (which is sufficient for most), is there anything I can download or update once the system boots to fix the problem?
  • Bruce
    PCHF Moderator
    • Oct 2017
    • 10697

    #2
    Are you sure they are 24GB sticks?

    PS: well will you look at that, seems DDR5 also comes in 24GB variants - learnt something new today!

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    • GoodbyeEveryone
      PCHF Member
      • May 2024
      • 2

      #3
      I ended up buying a new motherboard, pretty sure the original was faulty since I had no issues once installing the new one.

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      • Bruce
        PCHF Moderator
        • Oct 2017
        • 10697

        #4
        In BIOS, have you turned XMP mode on?
        That 6000MHz is only achievable when overclocked.
        Your ASUS TUF mobo only supprts up to 5200MHz without over-clocking.

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        • Bruce
          PCHF Moderator
          • Oct 2017
          • 10697

          #5
          OK, excellent - will close this as solved then. (y)

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