Dual Channel Memory Problems

[Will S]

So I made a post a while back trying to figure out what was wrong. Computer said it was running in dual channel but only could use 3.96 out of 8GBs of RAM. The bios says its running in single channel. But its has two chips in the correct slots. The first thing I tried after the recommendations I got was to try both chips, I did and only one post coded. I replaced both chips with some older ram from my other PC. Everything has been working fine up till 2 days ago... thats when my game audio would randomly stop working because the game thought I was tabbing out, but wasn't. Also when ever im watching a video on like Youtube, Amazon, or Netflix... the video randomly stops every minute or so. Meaning it'll stop and only way to get it going again is too back it up a second or 2.

 

I was trying to see if putting the G Skill back in would change the video problem... but it doesn't. Im starting to think that it is a hardware problem... anyone else have any other ideas?

 

(System)

AMD Asrock 970 Extreme4

AMD FX 8350

GSkill DDR3 1866 4GB(2x) / i do have different chips.

Kingston 60gb SSD

Kingston 250gb SSD

Seagate 1tb hard drive

Corsair CX500

 

(First Post)

 

[Radium_Angel]

10 minutes ago, Will S said:

GSkill DDR3 1866 4GB(2x) / i do have different chips.

Ever tested your RAM with Memtest86+?

[Will S]

2 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

Ever tested your RAM with Memtest86+?

no however I pulled the 4 chips that were in the PC out and put both G Skill back in. Now it says its running 6.96GBs of ram out of the 8 that is now in it.