Question ASUS Z-97A "Overclocking failed" then blue screen "Inaccessible boot drive" after installing new RAM

[Huggy_Bear48]

Hi everyone,

Today I received 2 new 8gb sticks of Crucial Ballistic Sport DDR3 - 1600 ram off of eBay to add to my already existing sticks of the same type. I put the new sticks in and assumed everything would be fine... it wasn't.

My computer went into a reset loop and after manually resetting gave me an "overclocking failed" error from the motherboard (I am not attempting nor have I ever overclocked this PC), and then a "boot drive inaccessible" blue screen whenever I bypass that and boot from the drive I always boot from. I've reset my BIOS back to default multiple times, and switched out both pairs of ram and now my original sticks aren't even allowing my computer to boot.

Needless to say, I'm very frustrated as none of the other solutions I've found online have helped and I'm about to part this puppy out and build a new one as this PC is going on about 6 years old (that's a conversation for another time). Anyways, if any one could offer me some solutions as to what I need to do, it'd be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

i7-4790k
ASUS z97 - a
Crucial Ballistic Sport ddr3-1600
ASUS Strix gtx 1080

 

[Calvin7]

2 new 8gb sticks of Crucial Ballistic Sport DDR3 - 1600 ram off of eBay to add to my already existing sticks of the same type.

No part numbers

Not compatible together.

 

[Huggy_Bear48]

2 new 8gb sticks of Crucial Ballistic Sport DDR3 - 1600 ram off of eBay to add to my already existing sticks of the same type.

No part numbers

Not compatible together.

Original sticks are: BLS8G3D1609DS1S00-16FND
New sticks are: BLS8G3D1609DS1S00-16FER

never the less, still getting the inaccessible boot drive blue screen whether I have one, two, or four sticks of ram plugged into my motherboard.