New 3200Mhz Ram wont let PC start normally.

[lanash9110]

Hi there!

I bought 2 DDR4 HyperX Fury 3200Mhz (model HX432C16FB3/8), and when i tried to boot the pc, it wont start, it wont even turn the monitor up, it will only show "No Signal", i tried using only one at a time, and the result is the same., wont even let me go to the BIOS.

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z270X-Gaming K5
CPU: I5 7600

The board's DRAM Debug red light lights up and stays on.

Are both the board ant he CPU not compatible with the 3200hmz ram?

 

[Lew Zealand]

You need to check the QVL for your motherboard to see if that RAM is officially supported. I have a few MoBos which are very picky about which RAM is supported and when using unsupported RAM, I need to clock down a bin or two. You could try at 2400 MHz and then work your way up. 2933 MHz isn't going to be all that much slower for a 4C4T processor.

FWIW, I'm using an inexpensive Silicon Power Gaming Turbine (lol, name) 2x16GB 3200 MHz CL16 kit with 2 different Mobos at supported timings which was surprising as these were pickier with other memory sticks.

Can you get into the BIOS with your old RAM (do you still have it or is this a new build with older components)?

 

[evernessince]

Restart your BIOS to default settings and try every slot with only 1 of your new sticks inserted.

When you install a new kit it should default to JEDEC base spec, not the module's XMP profile speed. By extension your motherboard should boot at the base speed unless you have prior settings prohibiting it or the RAM is bad. That said it's extremely unlikely that you'd get 2 bad RAM sticks. Buying 2 separate single sticks typically isn't ideal either. There's no guarantee that too separate stick will achieve the rated speeds when paired.

You need to check the QVL for your motherboard to see if that RAM is officially supported. I have a few MoBos which are very picky about which RAM is supported and when using unsupported RAM, I need to clock down a bin or two. Y

I'm assuming he's having issues with the based speed of 2133 as he has yet to enable XMP (at least from what his post suggests).

 

[lanash9110]

Was checking the QVL on my motherboard and the ram model dosnt show up.

I still have my old RAM sticks, i will Restart my BIOS to default settings, try every slot with the new ones and start from there, after that will try to clock it down and see how it goes.

 

[ir_cow]

Reset the CMOS or go into the BIOS and disable whatever OC and XMP profile you have on before installing the new ones. Motherboards "should" go back to JEDEC with new memory detected, but it doesn't always happen. So the old memory kits voltage, freq and timings are applied to the new one.

 

[lanash9110]

Reset the CMOS or go into the BIOS and disable whatever OC and XMP profile you have on before installing the new ones. Motherboards "should" go back to JEDEC with new memory detected, but it doesn't always happen. So the old memory kits voltage, freq and timings are applied to the new one.

Just tried that, sadly it didnt work. I think it has more to do with the rams not even being on the board's QVL.

 

[wNotyarD]

Do you have anywhere else you can test these new sticks on? Another rig, a friend or a tech shop?

 

[evernessince]

Just tried that, sadly it didnt work. I think it has more to do with the rams not even being on the board's QVL.

The QVL list is mostly there for those that want to hit higher speeds or larger capacity. Nearly every DDR4 8GB or 16GB RAM kit should work at 2133 on every motherboard, regardless of whether it's on the QVL or not. It's not feasible for board vendors to test every memory module on the market so the QLV is more a suggestion and not a hard requirement.

after that will try to clock it down and see how it goes.

How are you going to clock it down if you can't get the system to boot?. If you are installing your old RAM kit to alter frequency you should be resetting to default and then installing the new kit. When you install a new memory kit the motherboard always defaults to base speed. After it boots with that, then you can fiddle with frequencies or XMP.

In addition, if the above recommendations don't work it may be more effective to remove the system from power (unplug power cord), remove the battery,leave for 5 minutes, re-install battery and power, and then try the new memory.

 

[ir_cow]

Does you old memory work?

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

Reseat the RAM and try again. This is an increasingly common issue. Even with boards from the socket 775 era, the BIOS sometimes won't even bleep and act like a dead CPU core, if the RAM isn't making right contact.

 

[Dr. Dro]

It honestly just looks like your new RAM is defective. RMA the kit and try again. Don't bother with QVL, especially on an older platform, the lists go unmaintained once the socket goes past its support date so you're unlikely to find QVL'd sticks on the market without a massive markup price - and all you'd have for it is old, less efficient memory.

 

[lanash9110]

Update: I just tried both rams in another PC a bit cheaper board but with an already similar RAM (8GB 3200 mhz), definitly one of the new RAMS is defective, it dosnt work at all, and monitor dont show up image in any way, not even to go to BIOS, the other RAM kind of works.... and i say kind off, because i did some testing on it, the PC turned on just fine, but if i shut it down and back on again it wont show anything on the screen.... so i guess is just pure bad luck, getting two defective rams. On my personal PC both of them dont work at all

Does you old memory work?

Old one work just fine, 8GB 2400 Mhz, tried it on every ram slot and all of them are fine.

 

[Lew Zealand]

It honestly just looks like your new RAM is defective. RMA the kit and try again. Don't bother with QVL, especially on an older platform, the lists go unmaintained once the socket goes past its support date so you're unlikely to find QVL'd sticks on the market without a massive markup price - and all you'd have for it is old, less efficient memory.

Yes, this was 100% my experience when trying to QVL on one of my picky older motherboards. While I did get lucky and found a 2x8GB 3200 MHz QVL kit that wasn't badly priced, I replaced it 18 months later with the cheap non-QVL 2x16GB kit which just worked.

 

[lanash9110]

Reseat the RAM and try again. This is an increasingly common issue. Even with boards from the socket 775 era, the BIOS sometimes won't even bleep and act like a dead CPU core, if the RAM isn't making right contact.

Ive been doing that all day long, lol, so i dont think that reseating the RAM is the problem here, sadly.

 

[Dr. Dro]

Ive been doing that all day long, lol, so i dont think that reseating the RAM is the problem here, sadly.

Does your machine boot with only one of the sticks installed? Looks like you got a bad one. Very rare for both of them to be bad but its possible

 

[lanash9110]

Does your machine boot with only one of the sticks installed? Looks like you got a bad one. Very rare for both of them to be bad but its possible

Nope, but got to boot another pc with one of them, but if you restart the machine, it wont boot, the other stick is totally dead on both machines.

 

[evernessince]

Update: I just tried both rams in another PC a bit cheaper board but with an already similar RAM (8GB 3200 mhz), definitly one of the new RAMS is defective, it dosnt work at all, and monitor dont show up image in any way, not even to go to BIOS, the other RAM kind of works.... and i say kind off, because i did some testing on it, the PC turned on just fine, but if i shut it down and back on again it wont show anything on the screen.... so i guess is just pure bad luck, getting two defective rams. On my personal PC both of them dont work at all


Old one work just fine, 8GB 2400 Mhz, tried it on every ram slot and all of them are fine.

That's is extremely unlucky. Hopefully you are able to return / get replacements.