So about a year ago I decided to replace the thermal paste on the GPU and CPU, all seemed to go fine until booting the system back up, which it would not do. I finally managed to get it working with only a single slot of RAM of my pair in, it didn't matter which one of the pair it was or in which slot, one alone would work and not the two.
Out of fear of breaking my system any more I left it alone and went on with a single 8GB stick, but am not getting to the point (and confidence which took a hit) to try and get back up to 16.
As such anyone who has any advice on if it would just be a RAM issue and if so either hardware or software, or a possible issue from when I removed the CPU and placed it back in (I don't think I damaged any of the pins, and the system has been running fine for a year), or anything else.
2 sticks off DDR4 Vengeance LPX 3600
Core i7 6700k
Gigabyte Z170X-Gaming 7
Out of fear of breaking my system any more I left it alone and went on with a single 8GB stick, but am not getting to the point (and confidence which took a hit) to try and get back up to 16.
As such anyone who has any advice on if it would just be a RAM issue and if so either hardware or software, or a possible issue from when I removed the CPU and placed it back in (I don't think I damaged any of the pins, and the system has been running fine for a year), or anything else.
2 sticks off DDR4 Vengeance LPX 3600
Core i7 6700k
Gigabyte Z170X-Gaming 7