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[H]ard|Gawd
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I'm building a rig for a VM lab and I cannot figure out what on earth is going on here. This is the first time I've been stumped in years. Any ideas?
Specs:
i5-6600k
16GB (4x4) Ballistix Sport DDR4 2400
Gigabyte GA-Z170M-D3H
500gb Samsung 850 EVO
Corsair CX600
Corsair H100i
Put it all together, seemed to work fine. Installed Win 7 and threw in my UBCD for an overnight Memtest86+ run. The next day, there was a large number of errors. Ran Prime95 for a few hours. Small FFTs ran fine but Blend would error out almost instantly.
So, I reseated the RAM sticks to try again - I don't like the way these new RAM slots work and figured one of the sticks may not have seated all the way. After doing this, I couldn't get it to POST at all with all 4 sticks in. Whatever, RAM must be bad. I returned it for another set of the same stuff along with an additional 8x2 Patriot set just in case. This is where it really gets interesting. It won't POST with more than 2 of the 4GB sticks installed, 2 sticks POST just fine in any configuration. It won't POST with with Patriot in dual-channel configuration. Will POST with them in single channel. I picked up an ASRock Z170M Pro4S and a Corsair AX860 to swap out the next 2 likely culprits. Same behavior. With both motherboards, the beep code indicates faulty RAM. I have my doubts it's the CPU but I suppose it's possible? BIOS firmware maybe?
Specs:
i5-6600k
16GB (4x4) Ballistix Sport DDR4 2400
Gigabyte GA-Z170M-D3H
500gb Samsung 850 EVO
Corsair CX600
Corsair H100i
Put it all together, seemed to work fine. Installed Win 7 and threw in my UBCD for an overnight Memtest86+ run. The next day, there was a large number of errors. Ran Prime95 for a few hours. Small FFTs ran fine but Blend would error out almost instantly.
So, I reseated the RAM sticks to try again - I don't like the way these new RAM slots work and figured one of the sticks may not have seated all the way. After doing this, I couldn't get it to POST at all with all 4 sticks in. Whatever, RAM must be bad. I returned it for another set of the same stuff along with an additional 8x2 Patriot set just in case. This is where it really gets interesting. It won't POST with more than 2 of the 4GB sticks installed, 2 sticks POST just fine in any configuration. It won't POST with with Patriot in dual-channel configuration. Will POST with them in single channel. I picked up an ASRock Z170M Pro4S and a Corsair AX860 to swap out the next 2 likely culprits. Same behavior. With both motherboards, the beep code indicates faulty RAM. I have my doubts it's the CPU but I suppose it's possible? BIOS firmware maybe?