boot looping Unable to run dual channel (boot loop, orange led on) after moving components to new case

[LeTuga]

Hi everyone!

So, I changed my components to a new case, and when I turned the pc on it was boot looping.
I saw it was an orange led, I thought it was a RAM issue.

Took one stick out, leaving only a stick on the slot farther from the CPU, and the system booted up no problem.
Thought it was issue with the RAM stick I took off, so I tried swapping them, and the system booted up as well.
Placed both sticks back in, not in dual channel, so side-by-side, and system booted up too...
Only when in dual channel it does not boot.
After all this, I tried to clear CMOS. This is what I did:
Turn PSU off and unpluged power cord, and every other thing plugged to the pc.
Removed the CMOS battery from the motherboard and shorted the 2 pins that are related to the clear CMOS, according to the boards manual.
Holded the power btn for 1 min.
Then waited 10 mins and plugged everything up, and inserted the battery.
Turned pc on and still found it boot looping, or powering on but not showing anything on screen, and displaying the orange led...

What am I missing here?

PC specs:
CPU: i7 10700k
GPU: GTX 1070
RAM: 2x GSkill DDR4 4000MHz

Motherboard: Asus Z490-A Prime
 

[SavageNeo]

this happens to me sometimes when im moving my pc around and its frustrating, usually updating bios helps, sometimes i need to wiat for 15-20 mins for the bootloop to stop

[StalePie42]

try putting ram in all the slots to see if one of them is not working

[LeTuga]

1 hour ago, StalePie42 said:

try putting ram in all the slots to see if one of them is not working

it is only booting when the last slot is populated.
and after that it will accept/boot properly, with a second stick of ram, but only in the slot right next to it (the 3rd slot). So no dual channel...
once in dual chanel it will start to boot loop again

[LeTuga]

1 hour ago, SavageNeo said:

this happens to me sometimes when im moving my pc around and its frustrating, usually updating bios helps, sometimes i need to wiat for 15-20 mins for the bootloop to stop

Also updated the BIOS to the latest one, but didn´t fix it
I will try to leave it in that boot loop for some time then, lets see if that helps

[LeTuga]

Added the motherboard model

[StalePie42]

2 minutes ago, LeTuga said:

it is only booting when the last slot is populated.
and after that it will accept/boot properly, with a second stick of ram, but only in the slot right next to it (the 3rd slot). So no dual channel...
once in dual chanel it will start to boot loop again

look behind the mother board maybe a case stand off shorted something out

[LeTuga]

Seems like it was a bent pin on the cpu socket
Never thought a bent pin would let everything work fine except for this very specific situation
Lesson learned