Gigabyte G1 Gaming z170 Tom's tested it, why won't mine work?

Zephyre14

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I have built myself a computer over Christmas with my company bonus. Since then I have been rather busy so unable to work with it at all. I tried ti prioritize expansion capabilities and work with basics outside of that. As such I bought a Gigabyte G1 Gaming Z170 motherboard and two sticks of 8GB 2800MHz RAM as a start point. I currently can not get the RAM to overclock above the 2133MHz base of DDR4.

I have tried using just one stick and I have tried them in all 4 of the slots individually. All I do is boot into the BIOS activate XMP, save and restart and get a "failed to boot do you want to revert to last or access BIOS" screen.

I saw they recently updated the BIOS so that is what motivated me to find the time to get this up and running.

I know TOM's is having good success with overclocking the motherboard that is why I came here to ask for help.

The links below are a few shots from the BIOS and the specific RAM I bought. If there is any other info needed please let me know.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820232087

http://imgur.com/eYO4b2r
http://imgur.com/WDDEqZE
http://imgur.com/q1VaCuQ
http://imgur.com/A6aBSTl

P.S. I have been checking across the webs for a solution and all I have come across is possibly a faulty board. I wanted to see if there has been another solution I have missed or if I am just dumbing on something.

UPDATE: So I don't know what the XMP was doing wrong, but after realizing where to manually input data I was able to copy the RAMs numbers in manually and it is running fine. Thank you BadActor.
 

Zephyre14

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What I got out of the video was to make sure that my base JDEC standards for my RAM was at 2133MHz and that there are known issues, also to try all of the different RAM bays when trying to overclock. All of which I have tried and checked, if I missed something else out of that let me know.

Also I have played with trying to manually overclock the RAM, but sadly I don't understand the BIOS menu quite well enough to do that. The options I think I should be working with seem to be "locked" or just output values, and I can't seem to find a place where I can actually tweak those values. Is there a guide somewhere you know of that does a good job of explaining manual RAM overclocking? Preferably on the Gigabyte BIOS, but if not just something I can learn from would be great.