Update: Fixed!
Hi, so, I recently changed out my motherboard to an ASRock B450 Steel Legend.
I'm using 2x8 Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO, and tried to set its XMP profile, I hit a boot loop and thought that maybe the speed wasn't supported for the mobo/CPU? So, gradually, I lowered the speeds until I think it was 2400MHz and still, a boot loop (well, a few boots and then the BIOS boots with the default 2133MHz.) I didn't notice any performance hits, so I decided to kind of just ignored this for a bit (until I saw that my R5 1500x was way below average in benchmarks). Anyways; I noticed something odd today, and that was that my RAM had been installed in the 2 closer slots to the CPU, i.e the 1st and 3rd slots.
I've been looking on the internet, and have seen no mention of which slots are A1, A2, B1, B2 for this motherboard, and can't find any indicators on the motherboard itself. ASRock says to install the RAM in A2 and B2, which according to logic, should be the 2nd and 4th slots.
So, I'm relatively sure my RAM was installed in the wrong slots, and this is why I can't go beyond 2133MHz? However, after getting my GPU stuck halfway in my pcie slot for almost an hour, I want to be sure before messing around with components again (tech-shop built PC, I installed the GPU.)
TL;DR: Which RAM slots are which on the B450 Steel Legend? Just A1, A2, B1, B2 left->right?
I'm using 2x8 Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO, and tried to set its XMP profile, I hit a boot loop and thought that maybe the speed wasn't supported for the mobo/CPU? So, gradually, I lowered the speeds until I think it was 2400MHz and still, a boot loop (well, a few boots and then the BIOS boots with the default 2133MHz.) I didn't notice any performance hits, so I decided to kind of just ignored this for a bit (until I saw that my R5 1500x was way below average in benchmarks). Anyways; I noticed something odd today, and that was that my RAM had been installed in the 2 closer slots to the CPU, i.e the 1st and 3rd slots.
I've been looking on the internet, and have seen no mention of which slots are A1, A2, B1, B2 for this motherboard, and can't find any indicators on the motherboard itself. ASRock says to install the RAM in A2 and B2, which according to logic, should be the 2nd and 4th slots.
So, I'm relatively sure my RAM was installed in the wrong slots, and this is why I can't go beyond 2133MHz? However, after getting my GPU stuck halfway in my pcie slot for almost an hour, I want to be sure before messing around with components again (tech-shop built PC, I installed the GPU.)
TL;DR: Which RAM slots are which on the B450 Steel Legend? Just A1, A2, B1, B2 left->right?
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