My power went out and every electronic went out in my room. I then rebooted my PC in 10 seconds because the power went back on and in the booting screen of my BIOS I saw my PC was only detecting 16GBs of RAM and not my other 16GBs (I have 32.) I then freaked out then restarted my PC and has the same problem. I restarted again then my detected my other 16GB and I was running 32GBs of RAM. I then wanted to be sure what was going on so I restarted my PC again and I was running 16GBs, I quickly went into my bios and looked at my RAM. It was running 2 sticks in XMP (2800HZ), I then left the BIOS and went into windows, I ran a game (Counter Strike GO) and checked my framerate and framerate was stable and I wasn't getting stuttering. I then went on dxdiag and checked if 16 was actually running and it was. Then I attempted to launch Geforce Experience and it launched and it took a good 1 minute to launch I checked to see if I had 16 gbs running again and I did. I then closed it and tried to open up some other programs such as Razer Synapse and it wouldn't launch then I tried to launch Geforce Experience and it wouldn't launch. I tried to open other programs and they were working (Google Chrome, Teamviewer, Steam etc.) I then restarted my PC again and my PC detected my other 16gbs of RAM (in my boot up screen) and I went into windows and went on DxDiag to see if 32 was running and it was. From this point I came on TomsHardware to ask if you guys what's going on, I'm freaking out because I'm afraid if my motherboard or RAM got surge damage from the power outage. But my RAM is being detected and seems to be working fine so I'm confused, so the only possibility could be the motherboard, right or could it be a bug in my BIOS? Do you guys know what the problem could be? I'm really worried because I spend 3k on this build and built it only a month ago. Thank you for reading and for the help guys.
Power went out, and RAM not being detected sometimes when booting my PC?
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Tradesman1
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I'd pull the DRAM and (while out, clean the connectors) reseat the sticks, a surge ma have caused a bit of 'chip creep', or a stick may have moved ever so slightly
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