ram RAM troubles

[dtr146]

Hello LTT community! This is my first post and I needed some help on some ram of mine. I bought some PNY 4GB 1333MHz ram off of ebay (I'm broke ok). I put the ram into my computer and at first it started up great but as soon as the mouse cursor showed up I got the 'Paged fault in non-paged area' crap. Then I reseated the ram check all my bios  setting which are on auto and still are then reset. I got to the desktop but when I started doing stuff and I blue screened over and over again! A whole bunch of different BSOD messages were popping up like Bad pool header and one with just the name of a sys file and I looked up all of them and they pointed to Ram and HDD. But the RAM posts and works ok sometimes, for instance I went a whole hour while doing stuff and no blue screen.

 

Here is my hardware:

Asus F1A55-MLX Plus

AMD A8 3870

AMD R7 250 (Like I said I'm broke and I got it for 20 dollars)

 

I didn't list the ram I'm using now to type this and that is because It is crap I pulled out of a dead setup I found. I don't have a test bench but I have a few options and I was wanting to know if the Ram is salvageable. If not please explain because anything can be fixed.

[minibois]

Did you add that PNY memory or replace your current memory with it?
If you added it to your system, the two sets (or sticks, however many you have) may conflict with each other and may not work together (possibly they have different timings or whatever)

[Electronics Wizardy]

Its probably bad ram.  Id return it and get anouther stick.

[LukaH]

its most likely the ram not being compatible with the motherboard (timings, voltages, speed...). i had a kit of 2x4gb kingston hyperx worked fine sometimes but it would BSOD randomly. best way is to pull out your motherboard manual or find it online and check if the ram is supported. but you can play around with settings of the ram if you know how and maybe get it to work.

 

edit: the kingston kit was purchased new

[dtr146]

On 11/20/2016 at 4:02 PM, Minibois said:

Did you add that PNY memory or replace your current memory with it?
If you added it to your system, the two sets (or sticks, however many you have) may conflict with each other and may not work together (possibly they have different timings or whatever)

I had two sticks and i bought two sticks but i have two sticks in here now

[dtr146]

On 11/20/2016 at 4:03 PM, Electronics Wizardy said:

Its probably bad ram.  Id return it and get anouther stick.

I have already been refunded and the seller let me keep the sticks but I can get into windows with the sticks and I am using them now but I am having trouble right clicking and stuff

 

[dtr146]

On 11/20/2016 at 4:04 PM, LukaH said:

its most likely the ram not being compatible with the motherboard (timings, voltages, speed...). i had a kit of 2x4gb kingston hyperx worked fine sometimes but it would BSOD randomly. best way is to pull out your motherboard manual or find it online and check if the ram is supported. but you can play around with settings of the ram if you know how and maybe get it to work.

 

edit: the kingston kit was purchased new

the clock speed I have in here is significantly lower I crashed after sending the last reply so I swapped sticks but the mobo I have is supposed to be able to support the ram and I don't know how to update the memory list and the uefi bios to see if it is the board.