- Jan 19, 2016
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I have a GIGABYTE Z87X-UD3H motherboard and honestly, it's always been a huge pain.
I have the most ridiculous time trying to get it to boot most of the time. I have at least 24-32GB of perfectly good memory to use (2x8, and then either 2x4 or another 2x8, I can't remember). The memory is all perfectly good, and I recently bought the two 8gb modules thinking that I needed new memory.
I have two issues:
1) In most memory configurations, instead of POSTing I get a rapid beep until I shut it down. So despite having four slots, I can only ever (if I'm lucky) use 1-2 of them
2) Any time the power goes out or even if I shut down my PC as opposed to put it to sleep, I have to open it up in order to boot it again. I have to take out one of the sticks, boot it with just one in, shut it down, put the second stick in (they're in paired slots), boot it up again. It'll post and run with the full 16gb of RAM.
If I DON'T boot it up in that order with the memory, instead of POSTing it'll act as if it's going to but will instead just click once every 4-5 seconds, over and over. I have removed both hard drives and the graphic card while troubleshooting and it still makes the relatively quiet click, so it isn't any of those components.
Does anyone have any idea of what's going on here? It's driving me crazy and I'd love to be able to use all 4 slots or at the very least be able to shut it down and boot it back up again without having to physically replace the memory modules each time.
Thanks!
I have the most ridiculous time trying to get it to boot most of the time. I have at least 24-32GB of perfectly good memory to use (2x8, and then either 2x4 or another 2x8, I can't remember). The memory is all perfectly good, and I recently bought the two 8gb modules thinking that I needed new memory.
I have two issues:
1) In most memory configurations, instead of POSTing I get a rapid beep until I shut it down. So despite having four slots, I can only ever (if I'm lucky) use 1-2 of them
2) Any time the power goes out or even if I shut down my PC as opposed to put it to sleep, I have to open it up in order to boot it again. I have to take out one of the sticks, boot it with just one in, shut it down, put the second stick in (they're in paired slots), boot it up again. It'll post and run with the full 16gb of RAM.
If I DON'T boot it up in that order with the memory, instead of POSTing it'll act as if it's going to but will instead just click once every 4-5 seconds, over and over. I have removed both hard drives and the graphic card while troubleshooting and it still makes the relatively quiet click, so it isn't any of those components.
Does anyone have any idea of what's going on here? It's driving me crazy and I'd love to be able to use all 4 slots or at the very least be able to shut it down and boot it back up again without having to physically replace the memory modules each time.
Thanks!
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