Mobo not picking up other 8gb of RAM

Himynameislee

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May 18, 2017
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Hello everyone,

My situation seems to be a bit complicated but maybe I'll have some luck here. Anyways, today I installed my thermaltake 3.0 water cooler onto my pc. After I turned it on for the first time, my PC would stay on for about 10 seconds and reboot. I made sure everything was plugged in properly, and that the CPU cooler was directly on top of the CPU. So after about the 10th reboot, I pulled out a stick of my Ripjaws 8gb DDR4 ram, and everything went back to normal. Once again, I turned everything off, put the RAM stick back in, and it started to reboot over and over. Everything worked fine with my old CPU cooler which was a Coolmaster 212. I'm currently unsure of what the problem can be. I tried clearing CMOS, and even messed with the voltage in the BIOs. At one point though, I was able to have both 8gb sticks in, but my pc was only reading one. Any suggestions on what I should do?

Specs:
I5 6600k 3.5ghz
Gigabyte GA 170xp SLI mobo
NVIDIA gtx 1060 3gb
Ripjaws 8gb DDR4 (x2)
Corsair 850w power supply
 

Himynameislee

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May 18, 2017
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I tried it. My computer won't boot if there's RAM in spot its supposed to be in (3rd slot), but it will boot if its in any other slot. But even when my PC boots, it's still not picking up the other 8gb's in BIOS. I'm starting to think this in a motherboard problem.