- Oct 31, 2015
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Hello everybody,
I bought a mobo ASRock FM2A88X Extreme4+ and a single 8GB bank of memory DDR3 Kingston HyperX Savage 2133 MHz (HX321C11SR/8), but at the first boot the mobo doesn't recognise the RAM (just the fans on and no beep from the internal speaker, if I remove the ram the mobo gives me three beeps). By installing a 4GB bank of DDR3 Kingston 1600 MHz (KVR16N11S8/4) the system boots well and if I install also the HyperX it does read also the 8GB.
Actually it reads just the size and the type of the RAM but it seems it keeps them for the hardware. My OS is Win7 64b. The result is 12 GB of total RAM but only 3.49 usable (512 MB are for the integrated video board).
Even if the ram is not listed in the supported memory list of the ASRock site, I'm wondering if it should still work (the 1600 MHz one also is not listed too, but it works!) and if is possible that the bank is broken or is normal that it doesn't work due to incompatibility issues. From the BIOS I can see that the mobo should go up to the voltage and the frequency compatible with the HyperX.
Do I have any chance to make it work and get rid of the 4GB, which I just have in order to make sure that the problem was the ram?
Thanks everybody!
Peppe
I bought a mobo ASRock FM2A88X Extreme4+ and a single 8GB bank of memory DDR3 Kingston HyperX Savage 2133 MHz (HX321C11SR/8), but at the first boot the mobo doesn't recognise the RAM (just the fans on and no beep from the internal speaker, if I remove the ram the mobo gives me three beeps). By installing a 4GB bank of DDR3 Kingston 1600 MHz (KVR16N11S8/4) the system boots well and if I install also the HyperX it does read also the 8GB.
Actually it reads just the size and the type of the RAM but it seems it keeps them for the hardware. My OS is Win7 64b. The result is 12 GB of total RAM but only 3.49 usable (512 MB are for the integrated video board).
Even if the ram is not listed in the supported memory list of the ASRock site, I'm wondering if it should still work (the 1600 MHz one also is not listed too, but it works!) and if is possible that the bank is broken or is normal that it doesn't work due to incompatibility issues. From the BIOS I can see that the mobo should go up to the voltage and the frequency compatible with the HyperX.
Do I have any chance to make it work and get rid of the 4GB, which I just have in order to make sure that the problem was the ram?
Thanks everybody!
Peppe
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