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Can only boot with 1 stick of Ram.
Morning you lovely people, hoping you can help me with a little problem I'm having.
Basically, the title says it all. My rig has started powering itself down on POST with more than 1 stick of Ram installed. Occasionally it passes POST, at which point my BIOS comes up (well, just the "Gigabyte UEFI" bit) then it shuts itself down, and tries to restart again a few minutes later.
Now, I've already resigned myself to a hardware fault, and something needs to be replaced, but I am on a tight budget, and need to make sure that I replace the right thing, as I can't keep throwing money at it.
Things I have tried:
1) Tested all 4 sticks individually in all 4 slots (all were fine).
2) Tried different combinations of slots/sticks (basically, if more than one stick goes in, it doesn't work).
3) Cleared the CMOS
A quick google search tells me that it's probably:
1) A bent pin on the CPU's memory controller. (Seems unlikely, I haven't touched my CPU for over a year, and this only started yesterday)
2) A faulty Motherboard
3) The power supply - I'm not sure about this one, the PSU is pretty old (2-3 years) but it was a good one (OC Gold 80 I believe). It was a brand name anyway.
Anyway, any ideas? As I said I don't mind replacing hardware, but it needs to be the right piece.