4 Sticks of RAM not working

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Hi,

I just bought a 32GB kit of G-Skill Trident X 1600 DDR3 RAM and my PC won't boot with all four sticks - it will give me loads of short beeps and then turns off and on again, it will do this repeatedly until I turn off PSU. It will however boot with 2 sticks of the kit, I have tested all four sticks this way and all work fine when there is just two sticks connected. Looking for some help as I ain't sure what the problem is.

PC Specs;
i5 4690K
Gigabyte Z97MX Gaming 5 Motherboard
Gigabyte GTX 970 Mini ITX
Antec EA650 PSU

Any help is much appreciated.
 
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Have you tried multiple RAM modules in multiple slots? What would happen if you tried putting modules in just those other slots you think are bad? Same result?
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So the board is compatible, the OS is compatible, let's move on. Are you able to boot into the BIOS and check the RAM configuration there? I know some boards have an "extended RAM" option that sometimes needs to be enabled in order for the board to maximize its memory usage.
 
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Now that's the hitch it doesn't reach the bios with 4 sticks. I have now managed to get 24GB working and booting to bios and windows, so I'm hoping that doesn't mean faulty RAM slot :(

Anyways before trying the third stick I did have a poke about the BIOS trying to find an option like you are suggesting but couldn't find anything. What I did do was set the RAM timings manually just to see if that would help with the four sticks but still nothing :(

I had a quick look into the continuous short post code I'm getting and it seems that it means RAM not installed correctly, I'm not sure if this could mean that my RAM slot is faulty but I'm gonna try cleaning it see if I get any luck.
 
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After cleaning the slot I flung in the final stick and funnily enough it posted fine but it started to load windows and just froze, then it does the reboot cycle continually posting then booting windows and sometimes alternating to automatic repair. Maybe it's a bad module. I'll have another look around the bios and see if changing any settings can get it to load windows properly.
 
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Tried memtest and it crashed almost instantly :( I then did what you said and tried several different combinations of modules and slots, I am pretty much adamant now that it is faulty module and not my motherboard, thank god, as I narrowed it down to one module which the system won't post with at all no matter which slot you put it in whereas it will post with any combination of the other 3.

Your help is very much appreciated mate :)
 
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