Troubleshooting Memory Issues

[Fat Tony Games]

I built 2 of these:  https://pcpartpicker.com/b/mLjp99 - one for myself and one for my wife.  Everything was configured the same way upfront, with the same applications, drivers, etc.  My wife's machine has had absolutely no issues.  Games (the same she plays all day long with no problems) are routinely crashing and exiting, usually with some memory errors like "access violation".  

Here's what I've done so far:

• Updated all drivers, BIOS version, etc
• Re-seated all RAM and the graphics card
• Changed the XMP profile from 1 to 2
• Raised the voltage from 1.35 to 1.36
• Turned XMP off and ran at 2166 MHz
  • The only thing that seemed to help.  No crashing after 4 hours of gaming where the same game would crash every 15 minutes or so prior.
• Set the XMP profile back to 1.
• Ran Memtest86
  • With all four sticks in - Test 8 threw errors 20+ times and test 13 yielded  >200 errors.  
  • I removed a pair and left the ones in slots 2/4, then ran the test again.  No failures.
  • I left the one in slot 2 installed and tried another stick in 4.  No failures.
  • I left the one in slot 2 installed and tried the last stick in 4.  No failures.

Any recommendations on what to do from here? 

[Tristerin]

With sticks in slots 2/4 go game, do you still crash?  If so, we go a diff route.  If not and issue clears up its simply bad memory modules to be RMA'd

 

EDIT - or since you have double of each component, swap ram with your wife (entire kits) does she get issues and yours stop?  Bad ram

[Fat Tony Games]

Gamed last night - no crashing with the first two sticks.  Going to try the other pair tonight

[Fat Tony Games]

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With sticks in slots 2/4 go game, do you still crash?  If so, we go a diff route.  If not and issue clears up its simply bad memory modules to be RMA'd

 

No crashing - tried every combination of 2.  The second I put all four back in - crash.

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EDIT - or since you have double of each component, swap ram with your wife (entire kits) does she get issues and yours stop?  Bad ram

 

I was disallowed from touching her system because it is working well and she doesn't want to risk screwing anything up.  (yes, I know there is no risk at all, but w/e I'm not arguing if I can avoid it).