weird issues with ram

[Tomlintm]

this morning my wife's PC wouldn't post and i did some troubleshooting before i got stuck

 

so idk if the mainboard is screwed up or what but the pc will only boot with one stick of ram out of the 4 sticks of ram that work

 

which means i tried 1 stick in each slot all work fine but when i start to add sticks it wont even post at all the bios splash screen wont even come up at all

 

does this mean the board has a short in it or what b/c this is confusing me

[sms1202]

Specs

[Tomlintm]

Specs

Asrock 990fx extreme 3 motherboard

FX-4300

8gb of Gskill Ripjaw x DDR3-1866

Sapphire Radeon R9 280x

[kameshss]

BIOS reset?

[alexhelvetica]

What slots are you putting it in?

[Tomlintm]

BIOS reset?

yep i reset the bios when i got it to boot and no it didnt work

What slots are you putting it in?

when i tested all 4 sticks of ram i tried each slot which there is 4 and it booted just fine but when i put 2 or more sticks of ram in it wouldent boot at all

[kameshss]

yep i reset the bios when i got it to boot and no it didnt work

when i tested all 4 sticks of ram i tried each slot which there is 4 and it booted just fine but when i put 2 or more sticks of ram in it wouldent boot at all

BIOS reset button on the motherboard.

 

Not the S/W reset.

[Tomlintm]

BIOS reset button on the motherboard.

 

Not the S/W reset.

oh your talking about the cmos jumper no i havent tryed that yet i set the bios to defualt and thats all i really did at this point i will do that now

[Tomlintm]

BIOS reset button on the motherboard.

 

Not the S/W reset.

thanks you so much i did the clrcmos jumper and now all sticks of ram work now your a hero

[kameshss]

thanks you so much i did the clrcmos jumper and now all sticks of ram work now your a hero

Everyone in this forum are heroes.