RAM won't boot.

[Brandon_62]

My Gigabyte Z170-HD3 won't boot with two HyperX 8GB DDR4 memory sticks, it does with one however. I am running an i7 6700k 4hz.

The default DRAM voltage is 1.2 V (a made it 1.5 but no prevail)
I recently updated the BIOS with a F6 file.

1st stick is in the furthest slot from the CPU. I tried the 2nd in all the other slots and it still didn't work.

 

[Brandon_62]

Uhm I haven't heard any solutions to this issue. Most solutions were attempted by me.

 

[Shaun o]

Hello Brandon.

If you recently flashed the bios of your motherboard to a new version of the bios firmware.
You should reset the bios of the motherboard first of all after the flashing process back to factory default mode of the bios via the jumper reset pins of your motherboard.
It is done to flush out any old bios code from the prior version of bios firmware revision used, cleaning out old code.

Not doing so can lead to problems with ram modules ect.

So factory reset the bios of the motherboard using the bios reset pins found on your motherboard.

Then setup all of the bios options for the Sata interface mode ect that were setup. prior to the factory restore settings of the bios.

Make sure that you enable Xmp memory mode.
And that you check all of the settings found on each memory stick are detected right and set up with the motherboard on auto detection of it by the bios.

The speed, The timing, latency values, and the voltage is correctly set for when the option of Xmp mode is set in your bios.

Also check what memory type it is.
If the memory is not ECC capable make sure the mode selected for ECC memory is set to disabled in your bios.
And vice versa if the memory is ECC enabled the option should be enabled.

Your motherboard manual will state, depending on how many memory modules you have fitted into the motherboard
where each of the memory sticks should be placed in what slot order.

Check this as it will prevent the board from posting Brandon. Putting the memory in the wrong memory slots of the motherboard causes non booting of the system or detection of memory properly.


The last thing to check Is the mode the memory is at, with two sticks of memory fitted to the motherboard the bios should read it and report it in dual channel memory mode.

If it reports with both memory sticks fitted to the system, as single channel memory mode.
Select ganged mode in the bios setup options for the memory.

Or if the board does not post as said it is due to the fitting of the memory sticks if two out of four of the slots are used as to the memory sticks being placed in the wrong order of your four available memory slots of the motherboard provided for memory. consult the motherboard manual for memory slot positioning based on the amount of memory sticks used.

Check all of this and the board should work right.

 

[Brandon_62]

Quite a bit to read but I will do so, thanks for the detailed response. I truly appreciate it.

 

[Brandon_62]

Yeah it's not ECC.

Kingston HyperX FURY Black 16GB Kit (2x8GB) 2133MHz DDR4 Non-ECC CL14 DIMM Desktop Memory (HX421C14FBK2/16)


So I'll look into that setting.

 

[Brandon_62]

Okay so I just shorted my CMOD. Then I checked the support list and found out my RAM wasn't supported. FUCK. Can I continue running on one for now?