I recently bought GIGABYTE GA-X79-UP4 LGA 2011 Intel X79 (
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128562 ) and G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2133 (PC3 17000) (
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231572 )
When I booted the machine, I was presented with constant beeping and no bios post. After some testing, I determined that the RAM in the motherboard were creating an issue. First thing I noticed was that the DIMM slots were incorrectly labeled. I tried one ram in each slot until it booted. When it did, it was in a channel different than one indicated in the manual.
As I added more ram, slowly I was able to get all 4x8 gigs in but only on 2 channels (A + B). If put any ram into Channels C or D, it would beep and never post.
Secondly after I installed all the ram (Channels A and B), I was unable to turn on XMP. If I attempted to use either Profile1 or Profile2, the computer would restart, attempt to boot up and then restart again in a cycle until I manually intervened and reset the cmos.
I realize this is a new board. Am I alone in my issues? I am considering returning the board but would like to hear if others are having a similar issue.