Boot issue - bad RAM, MOBO?

[rekliss]

Hello,

 

Last night I was gaming just fine - i did notice a few odd stutters towards the end of playing (kind of like the hdd tick lag) and this morning i tried to boot it, it came on just fine but was just a blank screen (i have it hooked up to a led tv).  After some fair troubleshooting (pulled out the gpu, unplugged cd rom, hdd, ssd, sound card - still would not boot.  Then, after pulling all ram sticks out, I can post with only 2 of the 4.  Now, i have windows on the ssd, and games/etc on the hdd - the windows logo pops up and it says it is preparing to repair windows, but then goes back to post screen twice at most, then will stay on a black screen.  I'm not sure that 2 sticks would suddenly drop like that, but this is odd. I did get a 4 beep post code at one point, and after research made me test out the sticks individually.  I used a simple PSU tester, and all seems fine.  I can sit in bios forever, but even upon attempting to boot windows installation media from a usb, it just resets back to post screen. I attempted to use hiren's boot cd to read the ssd or format it, to no avail - but, d-ban will boot up, not sure what that means.  I am far from super tech savvy - so now I'm reaching out for help.

 

My specs:

Intel i7 - 4790k

16gb g.skill ripjaws (4x4gb) pc3-12800 9-9-9-24

Asrock fatal1ty z97 killer mobo p1.30

Kingwin lazer 850 psu 80+ bronze

Intel 250gb ssd

Toshiba 1tb HDD

Creative recon 3d sound card

Geforce GTX 1080 (evga)

 

Thanks in advance

 

 

[murtz]

Hey,

 

Firstly, try re-seeding the ram (i know you've  probably done this)

Drivers can Be a Bitch, so go on another computer and get all the latest drivers for your components , and a copy of windows and try to boot to that

If you have any extra ram,  try booting with that

Acording to your boot code (4 beeps) its a system timer failier witch is mostly caused by defective ram so try every stick individually and boot with only one 

[rekliss]

I re-seated them - but managed to only get 2 sticks to boot.  I tried to boot with those 2, and it worked for a bit.  I kept trying to boot into windows or just a stable environment to do any type of dos based disc operation, but it keeps resetting.  Then i got the 3 quick beeps.  And it seems for some reason, i am having to push the power button longer and multiple times just to get the thing to turn off or turn on.   Then, i also notice it does something peculiar - i will long press the power button to shut it off (sometimes i have to do it multiple times) but, then after shutting off, it will all power back on for a split second, then turn back on.  It feels like I'm chasing a goblin in this thing.