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Good After noon all,

I built my PC last year and it has been running perfectly... until today.

I am running:
ASUS ROG Maximus XI: Formula
i9 9900k (Delided)

ROG Strix 2080 Ti

970 evo 250 Gb
970 Pro 1 TB
32gb Trident Z RBG 3600mhz
3x 2TB Seagate Barracuda HDD
 

I stripped the system to clear the waterloop as build up was beginning and put it all back together as usual. When I powered it on it continuously 
fails to post showing Q Code 3. I reseated the RAM and it booted completely, I restarted as I was filling the loop and the error came back again. 
I have continuously been restarting and reseating the RAM but will receive the following errors. Q Code 53, Memory Code: 20.

I have reseated RAM, tired single stick in every DIMM, placed RAM in other system (booted straight away), ceared CMOS, tried with and without GPUs, 
with all HDD and NVMe attached and detached. 


I am unsure as to what has happened or where to go from here as it will work sometimes (rarely) and then wont post the next time I have tried 
everything I know. I would love some assistance with this please. Below are photos of the build. 

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