Hi all,
I just upgraded my wife's aging PC to a AMD Ryzen 5 1600X with a MSI X370 Gaming Plus motherboard and 16GB (8GB x 2) DDR4 3000MHz Corsair Vengeance LPX memory. The upgrade process went smoothly and everything posted fine on the first boot up. I then updated the BIOS to the latest version from MSI's website. After it booted back up, I started to mess with the RAM settings when I noticed something odd. Both of the RAM sticks are recognized by the BIOS but only half of the capacity is adding up to the stated total. Here is a screenshot from the BIOS so you can see what I mean.
Has anyone experienced this before? So far I have been unable to find a similar situation in my searches. Is there anything that you would recommend that I try?
My plan is to try to install Windows and see if CPU-Z or similar can see both modules. I've never experienced this behavior before. Most of times that I have had bad memory, the system won't POST with it installed or it doesn't show up at all in BIOS so I am quite confused by this situation. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!