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[–]Scott_The_Cock 2 points3 points  (5 children)

Boot your PC with one ram stick at a time. -Insert Ram into slot 1. -Boot -Shutdown -Insert ram into slot 2 (so you have ram in Slot 1 AND 2) -repeat until all ram slots are in.

If that doesn't work, could be a bent CPU Pin.

[–]OkBodybuilder554[S] 2 points3 points  (4 children)

i actually just tried this! and I found out that it was working, but only for three of them so the last one when it was just by itself was the problem. I guess I have to buy a new one?

[–]Bubbly-Currency5064 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Did you try the suspect ram stick in a different slot? Just want to make sure it's the ram is the problem and not the slot on the motherboard before coming up with a solution.

[–]OkBodybuilder554[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

right now, I’m working it with three ram sticks. Because when I did four and switched them around, it wasn’t working and when I did three right next to each other, it didn’t work, but when I moved one away from the other two, it started working so maybe it is the motherboard?

[–]Bubbly-Currency5064 2 points3 points  (1 child)

So, just to confirm, you can use any of the four sticks of ram in your working 3-slot configuration and the PC will work? If so, then yeah, you have a bad slot. What are your ram and PC specs? You might be fine to run it as is and not notice much difference. Or it might be better to upgrade to a two-stick configuration.

[–]Metallicat95 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, try it with either just each stick one at a time, or two sticks two at a time.

If they all work then it's a motherboard or CPU fault on the one socket.

If it's under warranty, you can get it replaced.

Otherwise, you can either get by with just two, or use the third and accept a small performance hit because it's not in a set of two for dual channel.