PC Will Not Boot After adding more RAM

[LucasJohn]

Hi all,

I've bought some more RAM for my PC as I need it for Virtual Machines of servers I run for school. I have currently have 16GB of DDR3 RAM and I bought another kit of the same RAM just in a different colour. One is black other is red. Irrelevant.

The RAM in question is the Kingston HyperX Fury sticks of 2x8GB. Same model/part number. So I got them in today and popped them in. (referred to my manual as always) hit power and my PC will not boot. I've tried the troubleshootings of rainbows and cannot figure out for the life of me what's wrong. It works fine with 16GB of RAM but 32GB it does not boot to show the BIOS. So either something is up with the Mobo. Which is possible. My VRM thermal pads are leaking oil. (Odd yes. Bad? Very most likely. Should I fix that? Probably). If anyone has any idea what could be wrong that I am doing here drop your suggestion please my good people!

Specs of my PC probably would be helpful too.

Specs:

Mobo: MSi Gaming 970 AM3+

CPU: AMD FX-8350 Black Edition

RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury *Black/red 4x8GB HX318C10F*K2/16 1866MHz

GPU: MSi GamingX RX 580 8GB

2x SSD: 1TB Samsung 860 Evo

Cooler: Cosair H100i GTX

PSU: Cosair semi-modular 650W 80+ Gold

 

I plan on upgrading hopefully sometime in the new year. She's getting old, especially with those cheap entry level parts. Turn her into server maybe...

 

Also Windows 10 task manager and CPU-Z detects the RAM is running at 933MHz and not detecting 1866MHz which it should be. Anything about that would be helpful too.

 

Thank you!

 - Lucas

[amusedschrodinger]

933 x 2(dual channel) = 1866. That seems fine. 

 

Does it boot using just the new 16gb kit?

[LucasJohn]

2 minutes ago, amusedschrodinger said:

933 x 2(dual channel) = 1866. That seems fine. 

 

Does it boot using just the new 16gb kit?

Excellent. That's what I was thing in regards to the speeds.

I currently have my PC running on the new kit alone at the moment.

[SupaKomputa]

you can mix different brand and speed, no problem.

The whole system would run to the slowest speed automatically.

If you cannot populate all of the slot, it could be one of the slot is damaged or dirty.

You could clean it by spraying some degreaser / contact cleaner, then brush it with a toothbrush.

Copper contact will develop a layer when exposed to air for a long period of time.