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Well as I played around in my bios I managed to find a windows update rollback from the 31st and did that, once it rolled back windows I managed to boot into windows fine & installed all 4 sticks and they are running fine together at 3200 according to task manager which is odd but it’s working, thank you all for the help!

Hello everybody I came looking for some assistance, I just got a new set of 32gb ram sticks 2x16gb and I went to install them into my PC along with a different set of 2x16gb sticks and it’s now causing my pc to boot loop automatic repair. 
 

I’ve tried doing a cmos reset with the pins & a bios upgrade to the latest with no luck, I’ll place my specs below and would appreciate any advice on what I’m doing wrong here.

 

i even tried placing back the working ram sticks back in and it’s still boot cycling

 

Previous ram sticks are: Ballistic 2x16gb sticks @ 3200 speed

New sticks I tried to add to my system were Crucial DDR4 Pro 2x16gb sticks @ 3200 speed

Mobo: Asus Pro X570-Ace WiFi edition.

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Just now, Dpro46 said:

Hello everybody I came looking for some assistance, I just got a new set of 32gb ram sticks 2x16gb and I went to install them into my PC along with a different set of 2x16gb sticks and it’s now causing my pc to boot loop automatic repair. 
 

I’ve tried doing a cmos reset with the pins & a bios upgrade to the latest with no luck, I’ll place my specs below and would appreciate any advice on what I’m doing wrong here.

 

i even tried placing back the working ram sticks back in and it’s still boot cycling

 

Previous ram sticks are: Ballistic 2x16gb sticks @ 3200 speed

New sticks I tried to add to my system were Crucial DDR4 Pro 2x16gb sticks @ 3200 speed

Mobo: Asus Pro X570-Ace WiFi edition.

Sounds like both kits of RAM are not compatible / happy with each other when placed in your motherboard + CPU combination. Try running the replacement RAM kit entirely on its own to rule out defective RAM. You may have to tweak your memory settings in the BIOS, but that's impossible for us to say unless we know your full system specifications.

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1 minute ago, kirashi said:

Sounds like both kits of RAM are not compatible / happy with each other when placed in your motherboard + CPU combination. Try running the replacement RAM kit entirely on its own to rule out defective RAM. You may have to tweak your memory settings in the BIOS, but that's impossible for us to say unless we know your full system specifications.

Sure, I tried those too and it detects the new ram at the base clock speeds and I even thought it might be my hdd but check disk came back good, it continues to just auto repair boot cycle. 
 

My other specs are 

CPU: Ryzen 9 5950X

psu: was a 850Watt 

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6 minutes ago, Dpro46 said:

Sure, I tried those too and it detects the new ram at the base clock speeds and I even thought it might be my hdd but check disk came back good, it continues to just auto repair boot cycle. 
 

My other specs are 

CPU: Ryzen 9 5950X

psu: was a 850Watt 

Good, that tells us the new RAM works at least. Since the kits don't work together out of the box, it's likely either:

  • their timings / memory chips conflict with each other, or
  • you may need to enable XMP or manually configure your memory settings in your motherboard BIOS

I'm not versed on AMD Ryzen memory nuances, so you may have to wait for someone more knowledgeable to come along, but it won't hurt to try manually setting the memory to 3200MHz (or a variety of other speeds, slower / faster, to see if they work at any speeds) and/or playing around with XMP settings, depending on what your motherboard offers.

 

The only thing I will say is I've seen some people report their AMD Ryzen systems needing time to "memory train" which made the computer appear to "boot loop" a few times or straight up "hang" on boot (even before the motherboard logo POST screen) for anywhere from 1-5 minutes. Not saying that's what's happening here, but it very well could be.

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5 minutes ago, Dpro46 said:

Hello everybody I came looking for some assistance, I just got a new set of 32gb ram sticks 2x16gb and I went to install them into my PC along with a different set of 2x16gb sticks and it’s now causing my pc to boot loop automatic repair. 
 

I’ve tried doing a cmos reset with the pins & a bios upgrade to the latest with no luck, I’ll place my specs below and would appreciate any advice on what I’m doing wrong here.

 

i even tried placing back the working ram sticks back in and it’s still boot cycling

 

Previous ram sticks are: Ballistic 2x16gb sticks @ 3200 speed

New sticks I tried to add to my system were Crucial DDR4 Pro 2x16gb sticks @ 3200 speed

Mobo: Asus Pro X570-Ace WiFi edition.

Like kirashi said it can be a compatibility issue. Make sure that the RAM sticks are fully seated into slot A-2 and B-2 to test the new RAM kit. After finding out if the Crucial Pro sticks work. You can either stay with them as 2x16GB or you can kind of play around and try all of them. So maybe try placing the Ballistic sticks into slot A-1 and B-1 and the Crucial Pro sticks in A-2 and B-2. No guarantee that they will work without issues. I've done this on a X570 motherboard. I had two kits of RAM mixed and they did work but I wasn't able to use any memory overclocks without things being to buggy.   

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Well as I played around in my bios I managed to find a windows update rollback from the 31st and did that, once it rolled back windows I managed to boot into windows fine & installed all 4 sticks and they are running fine together at 3200 according to task manager which is odd but it’s working, thank you all for the help!

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