Hey
I've got an Asus Rampage IV Black edition that randomly reports abnormal on all slots except B1. C1, C2, D1 and D2 *always* report abnormal, slots A1 and A2 report abnormal about 75% of the time, and B2 reports abnormal about 50% of the time. I haven't yet seen B1 failing.
This results in Windows reporting anywhere from 4GB to 16GB on any given boot. CPU-Z always reports 32GB.
I'm using two sets of Kingston HyperX sticks with the following product code: KHX24C11T3K4/16
The problem appears with either, or both of these kits, and also with an older HyperX kit (KHX2133C10D3W1K2/8GB). The exact same pattern of disabled slots shows with 1 through 8 sticks on either of these three kits. If I try to boot with only A1, the PC rarely even posts - stuck at error code 53. If I try to boot with one stick on C1 or D1, it never posts.
Something else that I find strange, is that these 2400MHz sticks are always running at 1600MHz - all of them regardless of slot failure.
I've looked at other people with similar problems on this board, and tried to tinker around with the voltage settings in BIOS, to no avail.
As I'm running a water cooling solution with hard acryllic tubing, checking for bent CPU pins will require me to drain the entire system, and demount the tubing, which would take a few hours. Also I wouldn't be able to refill the loops again without ordering more coolant. Therefore I don't wish to do this unless it is literally the last step before an RMA.
I'm running two GTX 780s, a Revodrive 3 x2, and an Intel i7-4930K.
Any ideas? Pointers to what exactly I should tinker with in BIOS? If bent pins is the issue, is this fixable? Will I eventually still be able to RMA?
Thank you
