Faulty ram?

[Black 18]

I bought Rgb Corsair vengeance lpx ram(16gb, 30000 MHz) and it started giving me troubles, giving me the blue screen of death, and forcing me to restart, so I ran a memory diagnostic thing, and it detected a hardware problem. Great. I sat through the test, and let it restart, I proceeded to run rainbow six siege and it is running smoothly and perfectly. I need to know if it is a problem and I need to replace my memory, or if it will resolve and all will be well.

let it be known that this ram as of today is only 2 days old, and was installed carefully and gently

[LauriHimself]

7 minutes ago, Black 18 said:

I bought Rgb Corsair vengeance lpx ram(16gb, 30000 MHz) and it started giving me troubles

somehow i'd expect that given the specs =P

 

but seriously:

is your bios up to date?

do you, by any chance, know what the code at the bluescreen was?

[Black 18]

3 minutes ago, LauriHimself said:

somehow i'd expect that given the specs =P

 

but seriously:

is your bios up to date?

do you, by any chance, know what the code at the bluescreen was?

The Stop code was MEMORY_MANAGEMENT

 

and I’m really bad with bios, and I’m not sure as to how to check it

 

after I posed this question a window popped up in the middle of my screen and said that there is a memory problem 

[LauriHimself]

5 minutes ago, Black 18 said:

The Stop code was MEMORY_MANAGEMENT

 

do you have xmp enabled?

and is everything up to date?

bios? windows? drivers?

what motherboard and cpu are you using?

[Black 18]

4 minutes ago, LauriHimself said:

do you have xmp enabled?

and is everything up to date?

bios? windows? drivers?

what motherboard and cpu are you using?

Gigabyte Auorus b450

ryzen 5 2600 (Stock cooler)

don’t know what xmp is

windows is up to date, drivers yes, ( are there memory drivers?)

again, I have not a clue how to work with bios, so I don’t know how to update it if it needs it

 

[LauriHimself]

12 minutes ago, Black 18 said:

don’t know what xmp is

so your ram is running at 2133Mhz, if D.O.C.P./xmp is disabled, but that shouldnt cause any problems.

unfortunatly i do have no expirience with Gigabyte bios, but you should find where to enable xmp on their website or youtube

 

 

 

[Black 18]

2 minutes ago, LauriHimself said:

so your ram is running at 2133Mhz, if D.O.C.P./xmp is disabled, but that shouldnt cause any problems.

unfortunatly i do have no expirience with Gigabyte bios, but you should find where to enable xmp on their website or youtube

 

 

 

So you’re saying this should fix my problem, if I turn on xmp?

 

[Black 18]

6 minutes ago, LauriHimself said:

so your ram is running at 2133Mhz, if D.O.C.P./xmp is disabled, but that shouldnt cause any problems.

unfortunatly i do have no expirience with Gigabyte bios, but you should find where to enable xmp on their website or youtube

 

 

 

I also have a question, just so I can learn, but why would the bios make my ram run slower than it can? And why do I need a certain setting to make I work like I want it to.

 

aslo thank you very much for the help, but also I have noticed another issue

 

the Rgb on my ram is only lighting up on a small part of the stick

 

do you happen to know what causes this?

[LauriHimself]

Just now, Black 18 said:

So you’re saying this should fix my problem, if I turn on xmp?

no, i am saying with xmp on, your ram will run at its rated specs. without xmp you would have yust wasted money on a 3000Mhz kit, because you are running it at only 2133Mhz.

you will most likely see them running at 2933Mhz, as thats the closest frequence to 3000 your mobo supports.

• Support for DDR4 3600(O.C.) / 3466(O.C.) / 3200(O.C.) / 2933/2667/2400/2133 MHz memory modules (thats what Gigabytes site says for RAM support on that bord)

4 minutes ago, Black 18 said:

I also have a question, just so I can learn, but why would the bios make my ram run slower than it can? And why do I need a certain setting to make I work like I want it to.

because every speed faster than 2133 is basically an overclock and has to be enabled manually

 

14 minutes ago, Black 18 said:

aslo thank you very much for the help, but also I have noticed another issue

 

the Rgb on my ram is only lighting up on a small part of the stick

• have you installed corsairs iCue? if so:
• start iCue
• go to "settings" (top bar)
• update your software (iCue settings area at the bottom right)
• done? --->
• click on "vengence pro rgb" (up in the middle)
• update the firmware
• if it says that you already run the latest, force it to do so (you'll see the option to do so left to the update button)
• do so until everything works (had to do it 6 or 7 times till mine worked fine)

 

note that i translate every step from german as i am running iCue that way.

 

 

ALSO:

though it seemes so according to your picture, make sure your ram is in the correct slots (mobo manual)

 

if 1. your stability problems and 2. your rgb issues persist:

 

run MEMTEST software to see if something is wrong with your ram

 

finally, if there is still a problem, contact corsair and have your dimms RMAd.

 

from the top of my head that is everything that comes to my mind to help you.

 

18 minutes ago, Black 18 said:

aslo thank you very much for the help

you're welcome