Possibly damaged RAM

[Tralexium]

Thanks for coming here to help me out!

 

Currently I'm a bit bamboozled by the situation that I have, so recently I had 2 Blue Screens: I don't remember the cause of the first one but it happened when I was running a full system scan of bit defender, the second one was caused randomly when I was watching a streamer and using Paint.Net to do my drawing work, this time I noted the error code: (attempted execute of noexecute memory). So the first logical thing that I did is run Windows Memory Diagnostics tool, the first result was bad. I decided then to turn off DOCP (AMD equivalent of XMP profiles) for my Trident RGB ram, it was initially set to it's 3200Mhz rated speed and so I tuned it down back to 2133Mhz (default speed) and also tuned down the cpu clock rate back to 3.2 (Ryzen 1600). I run the Windows RAM tool again and this time it showed no errors.

 

Should I be worried guys? Also if this is a driver issue, which drivers should I update?

 

Full System specs:

- Ryzen 1600 CPU

- GTX 1070 MSI GPU

- G.SKILL F4-3200C14D-16GTZR Trident Z RGB Series 16 GB (8 GB x 2) DDR4 3200 MHz

- Samsung 850 EVO 250GB

- WD Black 1TB HDD

- ASUS ROG STRIX B350-F Socket AM4 AMD B350

[WereCatf]

If you suspect you may have bad RAM, download memtest86 ( https://www.memtest86.com/download.htm ) and give it a go.

[Megah3rtz]

Bios up to date?

[Tralexium]

No, there's a newer version of BIOS with Asega b, I guess I will go ahead and update that as well

Quick Edit: I did however updated it previously

[just_dave]

1) You need latest BIOS

2) speeds over 2933 arent guaranteed

3) DOCP should be somewhat ignored

4) You couldve screwed up the SPD of the RAM if yo have changed the RGB effects

[Tralexium]

4 hours ago, dave_k said:

1) You need latest BIOS

2) speeds over 2933 arent guaranteed

3) DOCP should be somewhat ignored

4) You couldve screwed up the SPD of the RAM if yo have changed the RGB effects

I know about the SPD issue so I haven't touched the Aura software and all the lighting shenanigans, as for the memtest86 I run that for around 3 and a half hours and detected no errors so I'm happy about that. I suspect it was the RAM overclock, in the future if I want to overclock the frequency of ram again to 2933 but since I don't really know how I wouldn't mind if you or someone else gave me a reliable tutorial on manually setting the timings. 

 

1 more silly question, is it safe to set the frequency of RAM bellow the advertised one? (mine can run up to 3200)

 

Also I will make sure to update the BIOS again tomorrow if I have the time

[just_dave]

29 minutes ago, AlextheTroller said:

1 more silly question, is it safe to set the frequency of RAM bellow the advertised one? (mine can run up to 3200)

Yep. The advertised speed is basically tested speed, so if you buy 3200 kit you are sure it does run at that speed.

You can of course run at lower frequencies, i am running 3066 on 3200 kit myself.

Dont forget to use rated timings and voltage when setting it up manually

[Tralexium]

15 minutes ago, dave_k said:

Yep. The advertised speed is basically tested speed, so if you buy 3200 kit you are sure it does run at that speed.

You can of course run at lower frequencies, i am running 3066 on 3200 kit myself.

Dont forget to use rated timings and voltage when setting it up manually

Thank you, one more thing: Where can I check the right timings and voltage for my ram kit, is it on the modules themselves or is there a website with this data?

[just_dave]

1 minute ago, AlextheTroller said:

Thank you, one more thing: Where can I check the right timings and voltage for my ram kit, is it on the modules themselves or is there a website with this data?

usually a sticker on the module