Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 7 not booting

mahmange

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System Specs

MOBO Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 7
RAM 4x 8gb Crucial Ballistix Sport
PSU BFG GS-650 650watt
GPU Nvidia GTX 970
CPU Intel i5 4790k
cooling corsair h-80 liquid cooling system
HDD Western Digital Blue 320gb

Hello all, long time lurker here. I built this system just over a year ago and upgraded it slightly about a month back with 32gb of ram. Unfortunately in the last week i have been having more and more trouble getting the system to start, until today when the system seems to be entirely dead, no posting no beeps, all that happens is the fans on for about 5 seconds then shut off and the system restarts. I've been reading threads all over trying to figure out what i can do to rememdy this, but am getting nowhere.

what ive tried so far
Resetting CMOS (shorting trick, battery trick)
Booting with secondary BIOS
Booting without GPU
Booting with 1 stick of known good RAM
Flashing Main bios with secondary bios using the switch on the mobo

Results aren't promising
the only thing that managed to get any change was booting with the secondary bios. unfortunately this came with a few other problems, namely the displays were unresponsive and i could not access the bios. The system would post and stabilize, but nothing more, felt like it would just idle and not accces the OS or even BIOS. I am running out of ideas and would appreciate some guidance. Thank you all
 
Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR3 is not sold in 32GB kits. Perhaps you see the part number in this .pdf:
http://www.crucial.com/wcsstore/CrucialSAS/pdf/product-flyer/ballistix/productflyer-crucial-ballistix-sport-en.pdf

That motherboard has a Clear CMOS button. I don't know what the (shorting trick, battery trick) you are using involves. When using the Clear CMOS button, the motherboard has to be disconnected from the AC wall socket. Clearing the CMOS without disconnecting the power can damage the motherboard.

"upgraded it with 32gb of ram"
Using multiple kits or multiple singles are not guaranteed to be compatible when combined. If you prefer doing your own compatibility testing, then this may be for you. I recommend using a single kit.
 

mahmange

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Oct 27, 2016
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my mistake, it was 2 sets of 16gb kits, I was unaware that different kits could be an issue. As for the CMOS Reset I used the techniques outlined in the stickied thread on Gigabyte motherboards all while disconnected from AC power

"try the following:
hold the front panel power switch depressed until it finally quits trying to restart;
switch off the power supply - or, if no switch, unplug it;
depress the front panel power switch for twenty seconds more;
jumper, or (carefully) short the RST_CMOS pins momentarily;
 

mahmange

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Oct 27, 2016
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Tried one boot with all 4 sticks to no avail. Even tried with an old 4gig DDR3 stick that i had used previously. it has been sitting on my old mobo waiting to be turned into a media center.