Motherboard Gigabyte G1 Sniper z170 / Old ram Crucial DDR4 2800 8x2 / New ram Crucial DDR4 3200 16x4
So I just went through a pretty crazy day trying to get my new ram installed.
I used crucials app to do a scan and see compatible ram upgrades and ordered directly from them the one it suggested.
Installing the ram, the system wouldn't post, tried one stick at a time in every slot, made sure it was firmly seated, no dice. I installed my old ram again and it worked fine.
Doing some research about the subject I read a guide saying to reset the cmos so it recreates a hardware profile for the new ram, tried that, no dice. For some detail about that, I uninstalled the old ram, reinstalled the new ram, after shutting down and disconnecting power etc, did the battery pull (I also tried shorting the cmos clear poles before the battery pull but that didn't work either, which would have been nice because the cmos battery was located under my video card).
I then got some advice on reddit to try updating my bios, never did that before, and made a post on the motherboard portion of this forum with some questions I had about it. I was hopeful because one of the bios updates was about additional ram compatibility. The new bios looks very nice and seems to have more real time info about my system, I am glad I did that even though ultimately it didn't end up helping. It also matches the bios in all the youtube videos I have been watching trying to learn and figure all this out instead of the old school minimal look lol.
So with a fresh bios installed while the old ram was installed, I then uninstalled the old ram and reinstalled the new ram and did a cmos battery pull again (Left battery out for about 20 minutes) and then booted up hopeful. No dice.
I am at a loss at this point and I think i'm just going to have to refund which is too bad. I figured I'd throw a post here maybe someone would have some additional insight or ideas. Just can't get it to post, I tried all four different sticks individually and I dont think its possible all four could be bad (Ordered some ram years ago and did get some bad sticks so I know it happens but all 4? Those at least posted and just had constant blue screen and showed errors in memtest), so i'm thinking maybe despite crucials ram compatibility scan it isnt compatible for some reason.
So I just went through a pretty crazy day trying to get my new ram installed.
I used crucials app to do a scan and see compatible ram upgrades and ordered directly from them the one it suggested.
Installing the ram, the system wouldn't post, tried one stick at a time in every slot, made sure it was firmly seated, no dice. I installed my old ram again and it worked fine.
Doing some research about the subject I read a guide saying to reset the cmos so it recreates a hardware profile for the new ram, tried that, no dice. For some detail about that, I uninstalled the old ram, reinstalled the new ram, after shutting down and disconnecting power etc, did the battery pull (I also tried shorting the cmos clear poles before the battery pull but that didn't work either, which would have been nice because the cmos battery was located under my video card).
I then got some advice on reddit to try updating my bios, never did that before, and made a post on the motherboard portion of this forum with some questions I had about it. I was hopeful because one of the bios updates was about additional ram compatibility. The new bios looks very nice and seems to have more real time info about my system, I am glad I did that even though ultimately it didn't end up helping. It also matches the bios in all the youtube videos I have been watching trying to learn and figure all this out instead of the old school minimal look lol.
So with a fresh bios installed while the old ram was installed, I then uninstalled the old ram and reinstalled the new ram and did a cmos battery pull again (Left battery out for about 20 minutes) and then booted up hopeful. No dice.
I am at a loss at this point and I think i'm just going to have to refund which is too bad. I figured I'd throw a post here maybe someone would have some additional insight or ideas. Just can't get it to post, I tried all four different sticks individually and I dont think its possible all four could be bad (Ordered some ram years ago and did get some bad sticks so I know it happens but all 4? Those at least posted and just had constant blue screen and showed errors in memtest), so i'm thinking maybe despite crucials ram compatibility scan it isnt compatible for some reason.