Hello. My computer suddenly is no longer reading all of my ram. I believe that this is coming from problems that I have been unable to resolve, and I would like to post all of the issues I have been having over the last month that have ended up where I am now, with my ram not being read. I had made another post a while ago, so this is a quote from it (it's actually a few weeks old, if it sounds confusing!)
New problems:
For the past 3 nights now, the crashing has become a lot more alarming. Now, when I experience this crash, I can shut the computer down with the power button held but then it will not boot back up for several minutes. I push the power button, and the fans come on(all fans except the CPU fan come on), the lights (the light on the power supply, and the lights on my fans), however, nothing else comes on. After that, if I hold the power button, it will no longer shut off - I must flip the switch on the power supply, or unplug the power. This will go on for several minutes, before it finally does boot up.
Now, my computer is no longer reading all of my ram. It is only reading 8 out of the 16 gigs. The ram doesn't seem to be bad... if I go into my bios, and go to the system browser, it shows me a map of the mobo and everything installed on it; here, it shows that all 4 banks have ram in them, and it shows their size and name, so it IS SEEING IT still. However, in the start up information and under my computer, it only shows 8gigs. Trying to resolve this issue, I discovered that it seemed some wires were not acting properly in the case.
Tonight, while trying to fix the ram, I started out by removing all but 1 stick. When I tried to boot it up this way, there were 3 beeps, and it would not start. I put all the sticks back in, and then it would boot up, but still only reading 8 gigs. After that, I tried booting with only 2, and this is when my computer would no longer boot at all and we spent a good 2 hours trying to get it to boot up trying different configurations for the ram slots. Again, the lights and fans would power up, but nothing else. Eventually, the light on the power supply started blinking, and we noticed when we moved the wires it would stop or start the blinking again (when left alone, it just kept blinking, over 12 times before we flipped the switch). We moved all the wiring around after this and we also changed the PCI cable that goes to the graphics card, and after this the computer booted right back up again. Still, however, it is only reading 8 gigs.
I haven't tried all that much to correct the ram, because I am just at a loss of what is going on with my computer. I feel that these ram issues are coming from whatever has been crashing my computer, but I can NOT figure out what it is. The only thing I did tonight to try and correct the ram besides moving them around, was to go into the bios and change the voltage of the dram. It was set to 1.585v, when the default recommendation for my ram is 1.5v, which is what I changed it to, however it made no difference. I have never messed with these settings before, so it is not overclocked or anything like that.
New problems:
For the past 3 nights now, the crashing has become a lot more alarming. Now, when I experience this crash, I can shut the computer down with the power button held but then it will not boot back up for several minutes. I push the power button, and the fans come on(all fans except the CPU fan come on), the lights (the light on the power supply, and the lights on my fans), however, nothing else comes on. After that, if I hold the power button, it will no longer shut off - I must flip the switch on the power supply, or unplug the power. This will go on for several minutes, before it finally does boot up.
Now, my computer is no longer reading all of my ram. It is only reading 8 out of the 16 gigs. The ram doesn't seem to be bad... if I go into my bios, and go to the system browser, it shows me a map of the mobo and everything installed on it; here, it shows that all 4 banks have ram in them, and it shows their size and name, so it IS SEEING IT still. However, in the start up information and under my computer, it only shows 8gigs. Trying to resolve this issue, I discovered that it seemed some wires were not acting properly in the case.
Tonight, while trying to fix the ram, I started out by removing all but 1 stick. When I tried to boot it up this way, there were 3 beeps, and it would not start. I put all the sticks back in, and then it would boot up, but still only reading 8 gigs. After that, I tried booting with only 2, and this is when my computer would no longer boot at all and we spent a good 2 hours trying to get it to boot up trying different configurations for the ram slots. Again, the lights and fans would power up, but nothing else. Eventually, the light on the power supply started blinking, and we noticed when we moved the wires it would stop or start the blinking again (when left alone, it just kept blinking, over 12 times before we flipped the switch). We moved all the wiring around after this and we also changed the PCI cable that goes to the graphics card, and after this the computer booted right back up again. Still, however, it is only reading 8 gigs.
I haven't tried all that much to correct the ram, because I am just at a loss of what is going on with my computer. I feel that these ram issues are coming from whatever has been crashing my computer, but I can NOT figure out what it is. The only thing I did tonight to try and correct the ram besides moving them around, was to go into the bios and change the voltage of the dram. It was set to 1.585v, when the default recommendation for my ram is 1.5v, which is what I changed it to, however it made no difference. I have never messed with these settings before, so it is not overclocked or anything like that.
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