Crucial Tactical Tracers with X79

[Millennium Force]

Okay so the title says it all i have 2 dual channel kits of ddr3 1600mhz Tactical tracers timings 8-8-8-24 and with all 4 dims installed my system will not post, it actually gives me a CPU led, on my Asus x79 Sabertooth, which has the latest bios. Ive been trying everything I could think of to get it to work if someone would please help me that would be awesome. My cpu is a 3970X and if im leaving anything out needed to be known so you can help me please say so!

[aidenrelkoff]

buying 2 kits sometimes does not work. sometimes you need a quad pack, you cant just like throw 4 sticks of ram from different dual channel packs all into one system, it just dont work. Usually 2 dual kits work together, but sometimes not. especially if you for example, bought one kit , then like 3 years later bought the other two, probably the manufacturer changed the architecture of the ram.

 

but if u bought a quad it would work

[dragoon20005]

^^ what he say

 

X79 needs a quad channel RAM kit to work

 

you mentioned the mobo LED say CPU error

 

have you touch the CPU before?

[Millennium Force]

Yes, I have reseated it and done the runaround it works perfectly when it gets into Windows and I now have a quad channel ram kit so it will hit xpm and be just fine. But if I turn it off, and reboot within 20 mins it will give me the cpu led error again and after I power cycle it a few times or wait longer than 20 mins it will post and say overclocking failed and kick me to the bios. This is with everything stock other than xmp