Kingston Hyper X isn't being recognized, WHY?!

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Mar 15, 2014
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Bought a Kingston Hyper X Blu 1600 8gb kit for asus essentio cm 5675 and it would not boot to Windows, not even bios, it kept looping. Tried every slots and tips there was. When I did tried it with one Hyper X stick, I could boot into bios (my bios have no ram config). The bios recognized the ram and it booted to the Windows screen then shortly after into a blue error screen. I tried my old OEM ram just to make sure it was not my motherboard or anything else and it works fine again, so I knew it has to be the Kingston RAM. Any tips or RAM suggestions for an upgrade? Thank you!
 
Solution
Specs call for support up to 1333 DRAM, and believe like most prebuilts the BIOS will be locked from changes to DRAM settings, might try 1333 sticks