I’m having a perplexing problem and wondered if someone might help because it seems highly unlikely that I have a 75% failure rate from the four sticks of RAM I purchased new, but that seems to be the case.
Components:
Motherboard Asus B550-Creator
Processor: AMD 5950x
Memory: Kingston Fury 32GBx4 DDR4-3600
Graphics Card: MSI RTX 3070
PSU: Super Flower Leadex Platinum 850w
I can only get the computer to boot with one stick of RAM. 2 or 4 modules in any combination result in a yellow DRAM LED to hang with no video output or post.
I can get to the BIOS with one module, though only with two of the four sticks. The other two result in the same yellow light. I’m using socket B2 as specified by the manual for all tests of a single stick of RAM. Now of the two modules that I have gotten to work, one cycles through each of the LED’s on the motherboard (yellow DRAM, red CPU, white VGA) before finally going to the green light and booting. The other stick, however, the computer seems like it goes through a couple, then loses power and has to restart (fans start to spin down, the light sequence starts over) before it posts and displays an image on the screen. This consistently happens every time.
I flashed the bios to the newest firmware and enabled DOCP, but neither had an effect.
So my question is, where do I go from here? There’s a problem, and to me, it seems like it’s probably the RAM, but is there a chance it’s the power supply or the motherboard? It seems insane that I can buy a package of 4 sticks of RAM only to have 3 of them being faulty. It would be nice to be pretty confident about what’s wrong before I start an RMA process. I don’t have any other spare components that I can use to test. Unfortunately, my other PSUs are not beefy enough, and my old computer doesn’t use DDR4.
Also, while I’m at it, is there any reason my keyboard and mouse would not work when plugged-in? The screen at startup says one keyboard one mouse, but none of the keys work unless I move my Razer keyboard off of the USB ports next to the PS2 port and onto one of the other ones.
