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Strange RAM Issue

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darunium

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Hi All,

So I've had this problem for about a year now (its been crazy busy so I haven't had time to addrss it), but I thought someone on here might have some insight. Here's the deal:

I have 3x2GB sticks of RAM, clocked with XMP

Whenever I first boot up the rig after, say, 5-12 hours of being off, it only recognizes 2GB of RAM (but never zero, it used to be sometimes 4 and sometimes 6).

I then turn it off and turn it back on again either immediately or within, say, half an hour, and it recognizes the 6GB, 100% of the time.

What could this issue be? The Memory or the Mainboard? Or should I play with my potentials?

My Rig specs are in the sig (as an aside, the FT02 made a HUGE difference in my GPU temps versus the P193, although that was almost entirely I think due to the second GPU being right up against the PSU in the latter case, with only 1 VGA card I had no difference).
 
Sounds more like a BIOS, since it fluctuates so much, and works perfectly fine once you reboot. Probably something in how your BIOS detects RAM on bootup.
 
hm, but why would being off for prolonged periods of time cause that? What changes over time while the computer is off?
 
Could also be your PSU not providing enough power on first boot? And then once it warms up it provides the correct amount of power. But yeah not too sure, did you see what happens with only 2 sticks of ram in there instead of all 3?
 
that's an idea, athough I had the same issue when I had a different PSU (CP-1000)

I haven't played with the sticks yet, I will try that and see what happens, like if taking one stick out makes it work with the 4GB all the time or something.
 
I can't prove it, but to me it sounds like a motherboard issue.

Whenever I've had intermittent issues like that in the past, it has almost always turned out to be the motherboard.
 
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