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Hey all, tried looking for a similar topic but couldn't seem to find one. first off, the specs of my build: Ryzen 7 2700X 8C 16T Asus ROG Strix X470-F gaming MOBO TridentZ RGB Series - 16GB DDR4 kit - 2x 8GB -Timings of CL16 (16-18-18-38) at 1.35V. 3000MHz memory speed, PC4-24000 Gigabyte Radeon Rx Vega 56 Gaming OC 8G Graphic Card CORSAIR RMX Series, RM750x, 750 Watt, 80+ Gold , Fully Modular Power Supply Samsung 970 EVO Plus Series - 500GB PCIe NVMe - M.2 Seagate BarraCuda 3TB, 7200 RPM HDD My issue, is that my RAM is advertised at being capable of speeds up to 3000Mhz. but, when i open up task manager, it says my RAM speed is at 1067Mhz. Also, CPU-Z was showing the same speeds for my RAM. I went into the BIOS, and the BIOS showed my memory speed at 1067mhz as well. so, i attempted to bump the speed up to the advertised speed of 3000Mhz, however that is the only thing i did, i did not mess with any other settings, and when attempting to save changes and boot up my PC, it blue screened. I am new to all of this, as I have never overclocked anything in my life. How to I get the RAM speeds i payed for? How do I overclock my RAM correctly? PS: I attempted to use XMP profile, however i also cannot figure out how to enable XMP on my Asus motherboard. If anyone is willing to help me out, I'd really appreciate it and thank you in advance.

@NinJake i have actually found the solution to this problem, i needed to get the minitool partition wizard so i could convert the drive to GPT, then i was able to create new simple volume on my un-allocated partition.

hey guys, everything is all updated and so far so good got all my drivers updated for my hardware and now im just still encountering this problem with my 3Tb HDD: the buttons: "new simple volume", "new spanned volume", "new stripped volume", are all grayed out when i right click this unallocated space. when i right click the active partition, the "extend volume" button is grayed out. how would i fix this?

Hey y’all, this has solved my problem! Thank you SO much for you’re help!

Alrighty, awesome! I have only tried the format option so that could be my issue, thanks again guys!

so just grab new windows installation media, boot from it let it do its thing, and when i get to the part where it says which hard drive, select my partitions, then click "delete"? or "format"? @SpookyCitrus

perfect, sounds easy enough, I get home from work at 8PM EST, and will try this and let you guys know how it goes. thank you so much i really appreciate it!!!

@SpookyCitrus in BIOS settings should i make sure my boot priority is set to the installation media? @NinJake are there any BIOS settings i should make sure are set specifically or run "optimized defaults?"

Thanks so much, I will attempt this when i get home from work

@NinJake What format does my SSD need to be in? and would i do this in cmd? should i create new installation media instead of my best buy bought windows USB?

Built a new computer as a fun project for the first time, very new to doing all this stuff. Had windows 10 home 64 bit running fine on it, installed on an m.2 SSD. checked for windows updates and made sure everything was updated. Then messed around with drive partitions, made sure my hard drives were "acive" and made sure all the drives had allocated space, my HDD was not allowing me to create new simple volume for a portion of the drive, the 3TB hard disk drive had 2TB of allocated space and about 800 Gbs unallocated space, it showed that the "create new simple volume", "extend volume", "shrink volume" buttons were greyed out, I then extended the "system recovery portion" volume to the 2Tb of the hard disk drive that would allow me to create new simple volume on it, and the drive still wouldnt allow me to create new simple volume on the 800Gb portion. So i just left it alone after that to figure out later. Then I downloaded drivers for my MOBO and Radeon graphics card, and the computer prompted a restart, so I restarted it. When restarting, the computer said "Windows couldn’t find an operating system, try disconnecting any drives that dont contain an operating system". I believe whatever i did to my hard drives caused this either the Radeon software may have done it. I dont know why, but i never tried unplugging any drives that did not contain an OS. So, what i did is I plugged my windows 10 installation media back in (a USB flash drive i had bought from best buy, Windows 10 Home). When I booted the PC up I force booted the flash drive that contained the installation media via the UEFI BIOS settings. Then upon installation I clicked repair my computer>troubleshoot> then attempted a start up repair and the pc said it could not be done. I then went to re-install windows to the hard drive that i had already downloaded a copy of Windows 10 OS to. The PC said “which drive would you like to install windows on?” I clicked the drive that already had windows, then I clicked format to erase it and re-install windows, and formatted my other hard drive too to attempt to fix the other problem i was having with the HDD. It then said, “windows cannot be installed on this drive, it is in MPR format, EFI systems need windows to install on a GPT format drive.” for BOTH of my hard drives. Before restarting my PC, disk management was showing that the drives were in NTFS format, and my system is suppose to be a UEFI system. So, I then opened command prompt and used diskpart to change the format of the drive to GPT. Then exit diskpart, and exit command prompt. The drive still said it was in MPR format, so I reset the computer using the reset button. When it started up I opened the BIOS, it showed that the installation media had two partitions, [UEFI-(name of drive) partition 1 ]and the other just said the name of the drive. I clicked the force boot uefi partition 1 option and then upon boot it gave me the BSOD saying “your pc needs to be repaired” i turned it off and back on and it just went to the BSOD again not allowing enough time for me to open the BIOS settings. I'm pretty sure i did something wrong when partitioning my hard drives and corrupted my SSD, and may have caused issues to my Motherboard, PLEASE HELP Specs: MOBO: ASUS ROG X470-F Gaming Processor: Ryzen 7 2700X Graphics: RX Vega 56 by Gigabyte. Wind force dual fan. M.2 SSD: Samsung 970 + EVO 500Gb (this is the drive that i originally downloaded windows and it was working fine for the first clean windows install) HDD: barracuda 3TB 7200 RPM RAM: G.Skill tridentZ 3000mz 16gb kit (2 8gb) PSU: Corsair RM 750w (Pics taken before BSOD)