I bought a new pair of 4gb RAM sticks the other day.
Thinking it'd be easy to install, I powered down, slapped them in and powered on. It wouldn't boot. Fans spin up, a couple of seconds pass then it powers off, and powers on again and tries again, repeating.
I went out of my way to find the exact same sticks as my old ones, so that incompatibility wouldn't be an issue.
Specs as follows:
MB: Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3
PSU: Silver Power SP-SS750M 750W
RAM: Corsair Value S. DDR3 1333MHz 4GB CL9 x2
and the 2 new RAM sticks are the same ones.
Just in case any of these other specs are somehow relevant:
Main Drive: Corsair 120GB SSD
Secondary Drive: Seagate 2TB HDD
GPU: GTX 670
CPU: i7-3770K
I've so far tried:
Unplugging the system and taking out the MB battery and replacing it.
Resetting CMOS to optimized settings.
Checked BOIS version, it says FD. Date 03/20/2012.
Running only 1 stick of ram in all of the slots, all work fine.
Running only the 2 new sticks, they work fine.
Mixing 1 of the old sticks with 1 new stick, it works fine.
Anything 3 sticks or more just won't boot.
I've also tried setting it down to 1066 in BIOS and then putting all the sticks in and rebooting. Still won't boot.
Seems it just won't let me run any more than 2 sticks of RAM. Specs say it's compatible with up to 32GB.
Is my board faulty? Is this a known issue with this board?
