Computer reads 12gigs not 16gigs

[Butcher]

Put together the system today, its an Asus Maximus IV Extreme with 16gigs of Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz, however I get an error 45 when trying to install the 4th Stick, (ram model CMZ16GX3M4X1600C9)

I can use 12gigs fine, but I am a little out of my league trying to solve this, any ideas?

[FLOTSOM]

here is a silly question, but have you tride using different sticks in different locations? just as a method of eliminating the chance that you have a bad stick or a bad slot. i know that ram is supposed to be matched when installed so if a stick or a slot is bad you will have problems....

just a thought

[Butcher]

tried mixing all 4 sticks, 3 always work - in any configuration.

[FLOTSOM]

take 1 stick go into each slot 1 at a time to test the slot, if you have an error then use a different stick and repeat to see if you get the same error in the same slot.

if no errors go to next test

take 2 sticks do the first 2 matched slots then do the second set of matched slots, if you get an error use the other 2 sticks and retest to see if you get the same error in the same slots

use this as a method of elimination to check the slots and their configurations.......

if this doesnt show your problem then good luck cause im out of ideas 

[JTs]

maybe a bios update?

[guncrasher]

if all 4 ram sticks work then perhaps 1 memory slot is bad.  I was doing a quick look on google and found out that sometimes when using 4 sticks not on the compatibly list it will not post when trying to overclock.


semp

[Noir]

maybe triple channel is enabled and will only allow 3 RAM slots?

[Masherbrum]

maybe a bios update?

This or a BIOS setting.  If not, one of the slots might be bad.

[Butcher]

Yeah its a faulty damn motherboard, lucky newegg will overnight a new one, apparently the first ram slot was bad, from reading online its not uncommon in the Asus maximus Extreme motherboard.

only other problem I have is windows 7 will not install on my hard drive, going to try a low level format with diskpart and hope it can read one of the drives, both are 1.5TB western digitals

[olds442]

had this problem when i tried to put in more ram in my system i had 4gb of DDR3 and wanted 8gb when i put the new 4gb stick in i got loads of errors well for some reason my bios instantly put the ram mhz at 1600mz! when my MB could only take 1333mhz. so i would have checked that.

[Dragon]

RAMming a tainted slot leads to troublesome memories.


Rotate and test often.

[Butcher]

I got a replacement motherboard coming tomarrow, hopefully that solves one issue, now I need to Raid 0 these pair of 1.5tb western digitals

[Butcher]

Thanks so much Skuzzy!!!! I got the Heatsink cleaned and the chip, put the new Mobo in and it reads Both Harddrives and all 16gigs of ram!

[MrRiplEy[H]]

I got a replacement motherboard coming tomarrow, hopefully that solves one issue, now I need to Raid 0 these pair of 1.5tb western digitals

Hmm I hope you don't plan storing any vital data on that 3 terabytes of storage. Raid 0 will more than double your chances of a irrecoverable hardware failure. Either disk or the controller goes bad and poof your data is gone.

[Butcher]

Hmm I hope you don't plan storing any vital data on that 3 terabytes of storage. Raid 0 will more than double your chances of a irrecoverable hardware failure. Either disk or the controller goes bad and poof your data is gone.

I use raid 0 strictly for speed, Anything on either drive is considered "erasable", everything however is backed up to a PAIR of external 2TB drives, why 2? Failsafe - I had a backup go back in the past so now I keep two copies.
Every week the entire C Drive is copied over, the first copy takes 2-3 hours after that its simply adding whatever files it doesn't have which takes less then 10-15 minutes.

I do keep two partitions on the backup drives, one for C Drive, the other for storage of misc stuff like a copy of the Aces high folder (all my gunsights and skins etc).

If that isn't confusing enough, both external drives are on two separate surge protectors, better safe then losing 500GB as I did once, and it housed all my cd keys, and documents.