Ram issues

[LeJoJ]

Hi, 

I recently decided to add ram to my pc, as having 8gigs nowadays is becoming painful on some games. I currently have 4x4gb hyperX fury 2400mhz (yes low frequency but i'm ok with that) plugged in an Asus tuf b450 gaming plus, with a stock ryzen 1300x, a 500gb m.2 samsung 970 evo and an rx580 8gb. Also have an old-ass toshiba HDD and a focusrite scarlett solo g3. I'ts surely not a great config but it runs just fine. Atleast it DID. 

Troubles started 2 weeks ago, when I decided to do a clean windows reboot as my system was still intalled on the HDD (don't judge me). I did it when i received my ram so i could clean my pc, install my new sticks and nicely relaunch my beloved rig.

At the beggining it was fine. Nothing else to say that I should've re-installed my system on my SSD a long time ago. Started to dowload and install all my drivers, causing my pc to restart a lot. But at this point there was still no problem. But when I started browsing chrome tabs started to randomly crash. Found it weird but well, I just rebooted my system so maybe that's just a problem that could be solved via windows updates or some drivers. And from there things only got worse, and worse. Starting by bluescreens showing kernel-related error codes, Games like CS:GO randomly crashing etc...

At this point I was pretty sure that it was a RAM issue. So I did test these with the windows tool and it resulted as a faulty RAM conclusion. I decided then to re-do it without my new ram and I got no errors! I had succesfuly pointed the problem out. I obviously returned the sticks on amazon and rebooted my system AGAIN as it was now filled with corrupted kernel folders. Then I received new ones. Tried these this morning and... 30 mins later, saw a chrome tab crash. No idea if I started crying or laughing but it was bad. Anyway I now got to REBOOT AGAIN and have to deal with faulty ram slots.

Or do I? By experience I know that i've got the ability to mess up on all kind of stupid things. And it could one more time be the case. I'd like to avoid a motherboard change as I don't have much money to spend on it. So what i'd like is just you to ask me questions, even dumb ones about things I could have done wrong. That could be super helpful.

 

Thanks by advance.

[Stahlmann]

Did you still use the old RAM and just bought 2 more for a total of 16GB? Maybe your old RAM doesn't play nice with your new kit. In this case you could try to just buy a 2x8 GB kit and completely replace it.

[LeJoJ]

6 minutes ago, Stahlmann said:

Did you still use the old RAM and just bought 2 more for a total of 16GB? Maybe your old RAM doesn't play nice with your new kit. In this case you could try to just buy a 2x8 GB kit and completely replace it.

I don't know if it should cause any problem as I just bought the same kit. Atleast the name, frequency etc.. are the same. The appearance is a bit different but I don't know if that could lead to issues. I still have the other ones so I can try putting all the new sticks together but as I had error showing on chrome that probably means that a kernel file is already corrupted. So I'm gonna reboot again and come back later after I tried it out.

Thanks btw that already helps a lot.