Hi,
My 2x4gb (F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL) used to only give almost 4gb performance and the remaining was hardware reserved. so I just bought a single 8gb stick ( F3-12800CL10S-8GBXL) to add it to the pair. and at first boot, they played fine and I got a total of 12gb actual memory but after one shutdown, my pc won't start and the MemOk button was red.
I tried multiple swaps and realized that going back to the old pair(or even one of them which is something that used to work too) never starts the machine and sometimes when added to the new 8gb stick they were completely hardware reserved.
I did tinker with the timings a bit manually and used the xmp profile but it never made a difference neither a cmos reset did. I'm no expert at this bios/ram stuff so I can only seek help here if there are some specific timings or voltage I don't know about or if the old pair just went bad after one attempt of mixing.
Thanks.
Specs:
ASUS M5a97 EVO (Bios: American Megatrends ver1604)
AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1090T Processor
ASUS GeForce GTX 1050 Ti STRIX OC
Corsair CX500
G.SKILL Ripjaws X DDR3 (2x4GB) F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL & (1x8GB) F3-12800CL10S-8GBXL
Windows 10 Enterprise 2016 LTSB 64-bit
My 2x4gb (F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL) used to only give almost 4gb performance and the remaining was hardware reserved. so I just bought a single 8gb stick ( F3-12800CL10S-8GBXL) to add it to the pair. and at first boot, they played fine and I got a total of 12gb actual memory but after one shutdown, my pc won't start and the MemOk button was red.
I tried multiple swaps and realized that going back to the old pair(or even one of them which is something that used to work too) never starts the machine and sometimes when added to the new 8gb stick they were completely hardware reserved.
I did tinker with the timings a bit manually and used the xmp profile but it never made a difference neither a cmos reset did. I'm no expert at this bios/ram stuff so I can only seek help here if there are some specific timings or voltage I don't know about or if the old pair just went bad after one attempt of mixing.
Thanks.
Specs:
ASUS M5a97 EVO (Bios: American Megatrends ver1604)
AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1090T Processor
ASUS GeForce GTX 1050 Ti STRIX OC
Corsair CX500
G.SKILL Ripjaws X DDR3 (2x4GB) F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL & (1x8GB) F3-12800CL10S-8GBXL
Windows 10 Enterprise 2016 LTSB 64-bit