My PC cut out and now only 2 of my 4 RAM sticks work

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Recently purchased Corsair Venegance Pro Series 2x4gb in order to replace 2 sticks that were already in there, everything has been fine for a few days and apart from today. It cut out and won't boot, it gets caught in an endless reboot circle, i've taken out every stick, using the 4 old ones together and now they no longer work together. The new ones throw up the DRAM light, 2 of the old ones do the same, only 2 sticks fully work

My motherboard is ASUS Z97M-PLUS
 
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Well when you say cut out, do you mean a power surge? Do you have a surge protector?

Also, I would recommend testing each slot one-by-one. It sounds tedious, but one of the slots could have been damaged. So it will go like this:

Ram stick1 in slot one > power on > good? > power down
Ram stick1 in slot two > power on > good? > power down
Ram stick1 in slot three > power on > bad > power down > make not that slot 3 could be effected
Ram stick1 in slot four> power on > good? > power down

And you would do that for all of the ram sticks. It's to test to see which stick is bad, and which slot is bad.
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Well when you say cut out, do you mean a power surge? Do you have a surge protector?

Also, I would recommend testing each slot one-by-one. It sounds tedious, but one of the slots could have been damaged. So it will go like this:

Ram stick1 in slot one > power on > good? > power down
Ram stick1 in slot two > power on > good? > power down
Ram stick1 in slot three > power on > bad > power down > make not that slot 3 could be effected
Ram stick1 in slot four> power on > good? > power down

And you would do that for all of the ram sticks. It's to test to see which stick is bad, and which slot is bad.
 
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James_455

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It was operating fine and it was as if someone turned it off by the switch, and then it got stuck in an rebooting loop. I will try that and update from then
 
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