New ram installed, incredibly slow boot times

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I recently installed new ram (DDR3 2400MHZ) to my computer (2x4gb). This was adding onto the ddr3 2400mhz of exactly the same kind (literally the same). When I tried booting, it took 2 minutes to recognize that I had pressed f1 to enter setup when the bios saidv that memory changed. It then took 7 minutes to boot up windows. I checked speccy, and it said that I had 16 gb 2400mhz ram. However it said (11-13-14-32). I replaced the ram and rebooted (returned it to the original 2x4 sticks), and it still booted slowly. No matter how I combined the ram, it seemed that I have permanently made my boot times slower. In the bios I adjusted my ram frequency to 2400 (which my mobo supports- msi z97 gaming 5), and this did not change anything. It looks like programs launch at the same speed they did before, so the only problem I have is the slow boot times (windows and getting to the bios settings)

What should I do to fix this?
 
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I have
Intel Core i5 4690K @ 3.50GHz (oc to 4.0)
16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 1199MHz (HyperX Savage 4GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2400 (PC3 19200) Desktop Memory Model HX324C11SR/4)
MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917)

I made sure the mobo supported 2400 and that the ram are indeed 2400. What should I do now?

Update: I just updated my BIOS to current build, and there was no improvement. I have tried setting the ram to 1600 and this also had no effect.
 
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How do I manually adjust to 9-9-9-26? I can get it to 1866 hut I am clueless from there. What are those numbers called? If i knew that i could probably figure it out.

Thank you so much for helping me out
 
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I found out the 99926 thing, but not the 1.55. Is that the command rate? My mobo will not let me input numbers that are not integers here. It is automatically set to 1.
 
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I did these things (except the cr could only be set to integers so instead of 2t or 2n it was just 2) abs my overclocking settings failed. In order to access these settings, i had to turn the dram timing mode to link,instead of auto, and adjust from there. Was the cr of 2 the issue here? When I resetv the cr to one, keeping the voltage settings the same, the oc settings failed again. What should I try now?
 
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After none of this worked, i removed the bios battery and rest everything. With all 416gb sticks installed, the computer booted up, but the same issue of being really slow booting was still present. I am going to try combinations of the sticks to see if I can pinpoint which sticks might be bad, because after updating the bios and resetting anything, this should have worked, right? Is this the correct course of action, or is there something else I should try?
 
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After trying different combinations of ram, I am starting to think that it isn't a problem with the ram. The fact that even when I used ram i knew works and that when i completely reset the bios options, the problem still persisted lead me to think this. Is there some other reason for the slow booting times? They started when I installed the 2 more sticks of ram, but have continued no matter what I do to try to fix it.
 
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Would the fact that when i preformed a scheduled disk check, the check found nothing wrong, but stuck in the "please wait for your computer to restart" phase for a long time help predict anything?
 
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I think that it is not windows, because before the board even acesses windows it is really slow. Before the msi click bios starts, everything is really slow. For instance in the screen that says "entering setup" it will take forever to do anything. I think that means also that this isn't a problem with the drive, because the pre bios operations are also slow, not just the windows boot. Could it be a problem with the board? Where should I go from here?
 
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Did you ever figure this out? I have the same cpu and motherboard. I upgraded to 16GB and I’m having the same slow windows boot times, however everything works fine otherwise and am not having the slow entry into bios.
 
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