HP Pavilion Desktop PC TP01-2000a (2Z6C8AV)

[Resolvuh]

Hello,

I have a 

HP Pavilion Desktop PC TP01-2000a (2Z6C8AV) with:

• 8906 Erica motherboard
• AMD Ryzen™ 5 5000 G-Series Desktop Processors with Radeon™ Graphics
• AMD Radeon RX 5500 

I just recently upgraded the RAM to the LPX Vengeance DDR4 2x16GB 3200MHz, but I am thinking about removing one of the sticks due to the computers performance at the moment, since it only has two slots for RAM. I believe this RAM is suitable for my motherboard after researching but I'm not sure how to optimize it. Is there something i can do, including upgrading the BIOS to help it run better? 

I also have a Samsung Evo 970 Plus NVME M.2 SSD i tried to install last night, but I could not get past the BIOS boot screen. I'm assuming I need to install windows from a USB in order to have the computer set up and boot again. 

I'm brand new to computer hardware and have only spent a week trying to learn everything. Hopefully someone can help me move in the right direction! 

[Bill_To]

Hi

I would upgrade one component at a time.

RAM: Your MB supports 3200 RAM. But not all RAM modules may run at 3200 in your PC. You will see the best results using RAM upgrade kits. You have two DIMM sockets. Don't mix HP memory modules with other manufacturer memory modules.

Your BIOS does not support DOCP (AMD RAM overclocking). Ryzen Master https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/ryzen-master might allow overclocking the new RAM.

New NVME SSD: Yes, you would have to install Windows on the 970 or move a Windows image backup or clone the existing OS disk to the 970 to boot to the operating system thus eliminating a clean Windows installation.

You should back up data on the factory drive before performing any disk operations.

Don't do too many things at one time.  

Forums are good. But also check YouTube for:

Overclocking RAM using Ryzen Master.

Moving an operating system from a source SATA or NVME drive to a new NVME SSD.