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I'll be able to test my cpu in 3 days. Theres a good chance something stupid could be going on with it, as I just put it in and didn't have the problem beforehand.

Ok, I ran mem test on both sticks and they both suceeded without fail, but when I put either in b1 the computer doesn't turn on (no motherboard boot screen either). This is a motherboard problem, yeah?

Alright. Thanks for the help so far. I'll get back to you tomorrow so I can hang on to my brittle sanity.

I could try one tonight and one in the morning, but I don't feel like waiting PC-less for ~2 hours.

I couldn't get it to go at the same time. At the speed it was going that'd take at least 2 hours with some interferance required halfway through.

Couldn't find a thing in there. Here's what it looks like in the Main page.

Just updated my BIOS, task manager still says I'm throtteled with 8G in reserve. Weird, because the BIOS says nothing of single channel now. I'm going to look through the settings again seeing my version is different.

Completely different issue. Can't install the updated BIOS from USA or EU. I think the links are down. If I install it from China is it going to be in Chinese? http://tw.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?cat=Download&os=All&Model=B450M-HDV

I'll do that, give me a bit.

Cleared the CMOS the proper way, no change. I took one stick out, it booted fine. Task manager said I had about 70MB reservered. I turned it off, put the stick back in, same ol' 8G.

I installed the CPU about 3 days ago, so it shouldn't be that. Not sure if I'd be able to mess with it either. I'll test the sticks and reset cmos the proper way, one minute.

I'm 100% sure now that I've thought about it. I've run servers and played games on the machine at the same time, and with the ram I had set, that wouldn't have been possible with only 8G on a windows machine. They were definitely working at some point.

Just reset all my BIOS settings (essentially clearing the cmos I think..?), issue persists. I'm 90% sure they were working. I could be extremely blind and it could've slipped under my eye for about a year, but I'm doubtful that I'm that incapable.

Now that I'm thinking about it, I might have some custom bios setting madness that altered things. I need a minute to check on that.

@svmlegacy So far all I've done is run Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool, which came back with no results, and memtest on 1 stick of ram for 1 cycle with no results. @Master Disaster I'll try to figure that out, I've never actually had to update BIOS before