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Gigabyte G1.Sniper Z97

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Yo guys, another day, another motherboard.
This time i have on my hands the G1.Sniper from Gigabyte on the Z97 chipset.
Using an i5-4670k on it.

It seems there are some issues with the RAM memory. I have two dual channel kits.
One is from Patriot 2x2GB 1333Mhz kit and another one is from Corsair 2x8GB 1866Mhz kit.
But it seems it can't run both of the sticks. Every time i get a C0 post code. But it works when trying to run only 1 stick of ram.
I'm talking about the 2nd slot from the cpu and the 4th slot. The grey ones. Bassicaly its 2 and 4 but actually its 1 and 3 in the manual. Or simply you match the slots with the same colour.
Using the F6 bios.
 
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Interesting.. i'm able to run both sticks of ram, in single channel, on different color slots :|
 

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If you have a good eye, a decent flashlight, steady hands and a magnifying glass I'd check the CPU socket pins...I've had to straighten pins on 1155, 1156 and 1150 boards to resolve such an issue.

Let me get this straight...you can run one stick or one kit at a time? This is critical to know.

Based on what you have provided, I can assume that you are able to run one kit or the other in slots 1 and 3, but things go awry with slots 2 and 4 (1 and 3 = ch1 and 2 and 4 = ch2).

Is F6 Bios the newest?

I don't know about your previous motherboard experiences...is this board new or used?

So if you run one kit in slots 1 and 3 does it POST and boot?
 
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At the moment both sticks from patriot work in 2 and 4 slots.
When i use a single stick they work in any slot except de 1st slot.
This goes for corsair kit also. Been google and saw a lot of ppl have same problems with different gigabyte mobos. Maybe a bios setting!?
In their memory support list i am seeing the corsair kit, but not the patriot kit. Still same issues with the corsair kit also.
According their site, F6 bios is the latest.
 
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Yo guys, another day, another motherboard.
This time i have on my hands the G1.Sniper from Gigabyte on the Z97 chipset.
Using an i5-4670k on it.

It seems there are some issues with the RAM memory. I have two dual channel kits.
One is from Patriot 2x2GB 1333Mhz kit and another one is from Corsair 2x8GB 1866Mhz kit.
But it seems it can't run both of the sticks. Every time i get a C0 post code. But it works when trying to run only 1 stick of ram.
I'm talking about the 2nd slot from the cpu and the 4th slot. The grey ones. Bassicaly its 2 and 4 but actually its 1 and 3 in the manual. Or simply you match the slots with the same colour.
Using the F6 bios.

The issue here is that you should have installed a perfectly matched RAM kit into your machine and not mismatched to the point that even the frequencies of the RAM are different which would be the main cause of this incompatibilty issue.
You can generally mix RAM of the same frequency together, but if the frequency does not match you will have issues.

Put simply in your case you should have paired mixed 1600MHz or 1866Mhz RAM modules together and not 1600MHz modules with 1866MHz modules.
A matched RAM kit however would be better than a mismatched kit altogether.

I know very well that this motherboard as well as other Gigabyte motherboards are sensitive to mismatched RAM and will only function without issue when a perfectly matched RAM kit is installed.

If you are looking to occupy all RAM slots of your motherboard you generally want to buy a quad channel kit (with 4 modules) since with that sort of kit there shouldn't be any compatibility issues, but you won't get the quad-channel support since that is only for server class/high end desktop motherboards such as the X79 and X99 chipsets.

Potential compatibility issues can still occur when pairing two of the same dual channel kits and even 4 singles of the same RAM modules together, but normally such pairing of RAM would normally work and may only have the odd intermittent issues occassionally.
 
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I don't use both kits at the same time. :|
 
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Does a single stick work in all 4 slots? That will isolate a defective slot.

Check the timing settings and make sure nothing is overclocked, etc. Make sure it's on 2T as well for command rate.
 

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reseat the CPU and don't wrench it down as hard sounds like you either got to much pressure on the CPU or you have a bent pin someplace
 
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