[SOLVED] Motherboard not posting with ram in dimm slot B1 or B2

[Nojuiceforu]

Hello,

Recently I tried cleaning up some dust and rearranging some wires in the mess that was my computer. After using a can of compressed air to clean out the dust and moving some cables, it won’t post with ram in slots B1 or B2. I checked and the cpu socket pins are fine, reseated the cpu, loosened the heat sink and the dimm slots are clean, but I can only get it to post when I have RAM in slot A2.

Components:

MOBO- Asus Z170-AR
CPU- Intel i7 6700k
GPU- Sapphire RX 470 8GB Nitro
PSU- EVGA 600W
RAM- 2x 8GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400MHz

I’ve looked across forums everywhere and I’m doing my best to avoid buying a new MOBO and I don’t have a warranty since I bought it from a friend. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

According to your manual, page 1-8, you should be populating your rams in slots A2 and B2. Meaning that our ram kit should be in those two grey slots towards the right of each black slot.

 

[Nojuiceforu]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

According to your manual, page 1-8, you should be populating your rams in slots A2 and B2. Meaning that our ram kit should be in those two grey slots towards the right of each black slot.

Yup! That’s where they were in the past when it would post and now.