- Mar 29, 2017
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My pc set up is;
Intel i7-7700 3.6 GHz
NVIDIA GTX 950
Motherboard = ASUS H170M-PLUS
And a single 8gb hyper-x ram stick
(Also running windows 10)
I just want to start off by saying I'm not sure of the correct name for these so I just call them ram sticks.
Right! So I was told by a friend that my pc should run games much smoother with more ram, so I decided to buy another 8gb hyper-x ram stick to upgrade to 16gb's of ram in total.
Now there is 4 slots where ram sticks can be slotted in on the motherboard, these are;
DIMM-A1
DIMM-A2
DIMM-B1
DIMM-B2
(I'm sure you guys probably know this)
The ram stick I had was slotted in DIMM-A2, and in the manual it says that two sticks should be in DIMM-A2 and DIMM-B2, so when I received the second ram stick I slotted it into B2 and then turned on my computer, but nothing happened, just got a black screen. Left it like 5 minutes to see if anything would happen but still nothing but a black screen.
Now at this point I didn't know what to do, so I took the new one out and tried to start my computer, it came up with a different black screen as this one had writing on it, and it said something along the lines of "over clocking failed, go to setup and adjust these settings" so I proceeded to go to settings or UEFI BIOS I believe it's called, and didn't have a clue what to do so I then resorted to google. And someone said to change the frequency to 2133mhz or something, so I did this and clicked save and exit and windows opened like normal. I then swapped the ram sticks to see if the new one was faulty, but it loaded windows like normal, and then when I put them both back in again I get nothing, just a black screen again.
I'm not very knowledgeable with computers ect, watched plenty of videos before trying to mess around with adding ram and stuff, but out of all the videos I watched no one encountered this problem.
If anyone has any idea on what's going on I could do with the help!
Thanks!
Intel i7-7700 3.6 GHz
NVIDIA GTX 950
Motherboard = ASUS H170M-PLUS
And a single 8gb hyper-x ram stick
(Also running windows 10)
I just want to start off by saying I'm not sure of the correct name for these so I just call them ram sticks.
Right! So I was told by a friend that my pc should run games much smoother with more ram, so I decided to buy another 8gb hyper-x ram stick to upgrade to 16gb's of ram in total.
Now there is 4 slots where ram sticks can be slotted in on the motherboard, these are;
DIMM-A1
DIMM-A2
DIMM-B1
DIMM-B2
(I'm sure you guys probably know this)
The ram stick I had was slotted in DIMM-A2, and in the manual it says that two sticks should be in DIMM-A2 and DIMM-B2, so when I received the second ram stick I slotted it into B2 and then turned on my computer, but nothing happened, just got a black screen. Left it like 5 minutes to see if anything would happen but still nothing but a black screen.
Now at this point I didn't know what to do, so I took the new one out and tried to start my computer, it came up with a different black screen as this one had writing on it, and it said something along the lines of "over clocking failed, go to setup and adjust these settings" so I proceeded to go to settings or UEFI BIOS I believe it's called, and didn't have a clue what to do so I then resorted to google. And someone said to change the frequency to 2133mhz or something, so I did this and clicked save and exit and windows opened like normal. I then swapped the ram sticks to see if the new one was faulty, but it loaded windows like normal, and then when I put them both back in again I get nothing, just a black screen again.
I'm not very knowledgeable with computers ect, watched plenty of videos before trying to mess around with adding ram and stuff, but out of all the videos I watched no one encountered this problem.
If anyone has any idea on what's going on I could do with the help!
Thanks!
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