#Ram Slot Isuue

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grizzled harbor
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Hello everyone I’m having an issue with my Msi motherboard so basically my ram only works in dimm slot 1 and dimm slot 2 but I’m trying too add more ram to my pc but whenever I add more ram to the other slots I just get a black screen. My MotherBoard Is An Msi x99a Gaming 7. My Ram Im Trying To Add Is Patriot Viper 3200mhz DDr4

ruby vault
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Its possible your motherboard only supportd a certian amount of RAM

grizzled harbor
ruby vault
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Faulty RAM then?

grizzled harbor
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no i have tested all ram in slots 1 and 2 and they all work

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its just if i add them to any other slots i get the black screen

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its like there is a setting or something not allowing me to add ram to any other slots

brazen gulch
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so things that might cause this is either:

  • faulty ram
  • unsupported by motherboard
  • cpu pins bent/ not enough pressure / too much pressure on cpu
  • dirty dimm slots
  • bad bios
  • gg motherboard
main vortex
grizzled harbor
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Is there a way to clear cmos without removing the battery bcs its under my gpu?

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@main vortex

main vortex
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says it has a button on the back panel IO

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grizzled harbor
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ight i shut down my pc first right?

main vortex
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yeah

grizzled harbor
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ight will clear cmos now and then add more ram and see if it works

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@main vortex Yh I just cleared cmos added my ram and it’s still not giving a post

main vortex
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well then its back to what ExpiredBrownie said 😦

grizzled harbor
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Here is a video these numbers will cycle when I add more ram in. But when I only have ram in slots 1 and 2 the numbers won’t cycle and they will change numbers also

main vortex
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is that how you are installing the memory? (that is from the manual)

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grizzled harbor
main vortex
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which cpu do you have?

grizzled harbor
main vortex
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yeah gonna say memory incompatibility 😦 can you return it?

grizzled harbor
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yh i can return it