3 stick of ram but 4 slots

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Gpu and soundcard are having no problems at this time.

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I did this to my soundcard, gpu, and motherboard. I did get sticky surfaces and cleaned them with a toothbrush, 99% alcohol, and a coffee filter. Take a known good stick to test in each slot to verify that the slots are good. Test your ram one stick at a time in each slot. This is particularly hurtful for ryzen which needs fast ram. Two, while my loop was apart I tried cleaning off excess soldering flux and residue from motherboard as I was curious as to if it would actually help with my overclock. A single 16gb stick will not operate as fast as 2 x 8gb. One, I just took apart my watercooling loop and installed an apogee drive II. I did just do two things that could possibly of caused this. I also have cleared cmos repeatedly with the button and also by removing the battery. I have let the computer run for awhile hoping that the motherboard wills somehow find itself a fix. It does not matter which of my four sticks are in which slots. This setup will let me get into windows etc. I can have upto the two left slots populated giving me 4gb of single channel ram. It will turn on again repeating this over and over. By not boot I mean that the computer turns on (fans lights etc) but I get no beeps and it shortly turns off without me being able to even enter the bios. Those are the two slots on the right side out of four slots. hi, so normally for using two sticks of RAM - they are put in slots 2 & 4 (counting from left of the CPU). I can not get my computer to boot if I have a ram stick in the 3rd or 4th slot.

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I cleared cmos so settings are all at stock.

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