Weird POSTing issue

[edutechie]

Hi all,

 

I'm a bit stuck - usually I don't have an issue but I thought it'd be worth asking the community for help on this one: I've just built a new machine and I've been having some crazy issues that I think are motherboard related. When seating all 4 sticks of RAM, the board just wouldn't turn on. I tried each stick individually as a single stick and later with two and they worked just fine - which makes me think the RAM isn't at fault. However, when all 4 sticks are in the board doesn't POST, and now it seems like a lottery of how successful the PC is to start, it successfully booted and ran for 3+ hours when I had 2 sticks in and I thought everything was fine, then I placed 4 in, noticed it wouldn't boot again so I pulled the 2 ones I had installed back out and the machine fails to boot again - no matter what stick I use even though they worked previously without any issue (however the board never booted with all 4 sticks in.)

 

Any idea before I shout at ASUS?

 

My component list is:

 

ASUS Prime B250-Plus ATX Motherboard
4 x 8GB DDR4-2133 G.Skill Flare X RAM

Intel Core i5-7500 CPU

Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 4GB GPU

deadish Seagate HDD 500GB

500W PSU

 

Thanks.

[genexis_x]

26 minutes ago, edutechie said:

ASUS Prime B250-Plus ATX Motherboard
4 x 8GB DDR4-2133 G.Skill Flare X RAM

Intel Core i5-7500 CPU

Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 4GB GPU

deadish Seagate HDD 500GB

500W PSU

First,
-4X8GB RAM is overkill
-FlareX RAM with a Intel CPU? (yes I know it's compatible but you had paid unnecessary money for that)
-Why not get a Ryzen CPU? 4c i5 without ht will struggle soon
-Just curious, what's the PSU model?

Back to topic, have you tried all RAM slots? Maybe one of the RAM slot is faulty.

[edutechie]

45 minutes ago, ZM Fong said:

First,
-4X8GB RAM is overkill
-FlareX RAM with a Intel CPU? (yes I know it's compatible but you had paid unnecessary money for that)
-Why not get a Ryzen CPU? 4c i5 without ht will struggle soon
-Just curious, what's the PSU model?

Back to topic, have you tried all RAM slots? Maybe one of the RAM slot is faulty.

32GB isn't overkill for my workload...(hint: gaming isn't the priority for this machine)

Flare X was cheaper than the alternative for the same capacity ;p

Moving to i7 later on this year, CPU is just a stopgap

PSU is a Xigmatek Tauro 500W

 

I have tried all the slots, I am pretty sure they're faulty but wanted a second opinion on it, the weird part for me is the sporadic nature as some of them did work for a short amount of time before failing again.

 

 

[genexis_x]

1 hour ago, edutechie said:

I have tried all the slots, I am pretty sure they're faulty but wanted a second opinion on it, the weird part for me is the sporadic nature as some of them did work for a short amount of time before failing again.

Then return the mobo if it's still under warranty