New RAM; programs crashing

[the5thorseman]

So, I recently got myself some new RAM 'cause the old stuff I had was getting really old, and it had gone through a dead CPU or two and I was suspecting there was some amount of damage to it too. For the most part, it's been working great. It's 32 GB of the Corsair vengeance pro, at 2133 MHz. The first weird thing I noticed is that my BIOS doesn't like setting it to 2133 MHz. It prefers 1333 as default, which is just a bit more than half the actual speed. So I switched it over to 2133, everything's working fine. Great, problem solved. But now some programs seem unstable. R6 Siege for example will work fine and suddenly disappear. I would say crash, but it doesn't behave like a normal crash where things freeze up, or windows is like "the program stopped responding" and the screen goes black. No, it just disappears from the screen as if the computer forgot it was running it. I tried running the RAM at 1866 MHz, and that worked fine and all but that's no fun. I NEED MY SPEED. 

Anyway, any help would be appreciated.

 

[Dobbsjr]

Did you enable XMP?

[the5thorseman]

Nope, BIOS won't let me. 

[Minsekt]

13 minutes ago, the5thorseman said:

Nope, BIOS won't let me. 

what are your specs? mobo, cpu?

[the5thorseman]

FX-8350 and MSI 970 Gaming on windows 10

[Minsekt]

2 minutes ago, the5thorseman said:

FX-8350 and MSI 970 Gaming on windows 10

are you using 2x16gb or 4x8gb ram?

[the5thorseman]

4x8gb

[Minsekt]

2 minutes ago, the5thorseman said:

4x8gb

pull 2 dimms out (the 2nd and 4th slot) and look if it still happens

[the5thorseman]

2 hours ago, Minsekt said:

pull 2 dimms out (the 2nd and 4th slot) and look if it still happens

The BIOS did not appreciate that. Refused to post, had to clear CMOS. 

[beavo451]

Try each stick one at a time. Run memtest on each stick so you can see if it is the memory or something else that is causing problems.

[the5thorseman]

Well, everything else started spontaneously cooperating, but now R6 is completely broken. Lovely.