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I have one set of 8 gig vengeance memory sticks and one set of 16 gig. All of the tech specs match except of course how much memory there is. At first and for quite a while it worked fine. Then blue screens and freezes to where it drove me crazy. If I take two out all is fine. Is there anything I can do to get them to work together. Thanks in advance for any responses.
 
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I'm pretty hopeful you've done this correctly, but still, have you made sure the DIMM sticks are in same colored slots, like a-b-a-b for 4-8-4-8GB?

Also, are you sure the BSoDs are memory related? When do you get them, I mean while doing gaming or rendering or random or something particular?

Also, check in BIOS if all 4 slots are detecting the stick, and from Windows, check the total memory available.

Also, run Memtest to check for any memory errors.
 
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All of the slots are the same color. Nothing differentiates them except 1,3 and 2,4. They are all detected. I run the memtest andusually get no results after restart, when I did it didn't find any problems. I'm not sure it's memory. I'm trying to find out. I was fine until a few minutes ago when I was putting together some video and screen freeze not BSOD just frozen screen. Couldn't do anything but reset. Since I took out two sticks there hasn't been a BSOD. I am starting to wonder about my motherboard.
 
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Have you updated the GPU drivers to the latest? If everything freezes, its likely that computer has run out of memory, but since you have good amount of it, that shouldn't happen. Wait and see if the screen gets back to normal. If it does, Do you get any pop-up ballon saying "Display driver crashed (or something similar) and has successfully recovered"?
 
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All of the drivers are right. I ram the memtest again and it found problems. No solution. Contact manufacturer. I built it. Switched out memory and ran it again. No problems indicated this time and performance seems good. So it seems that 2 of the memory sticks are faulty. it would be the new higher capacity ones of course. Any other thoughts are appreciated. Thank you very much for your advice.
 
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Try to get a refund. Memory is notorious for not working with even identical ones. You can take 10 sticks straight out of the factory line and find that only 4 of 'em work with others of the same kind. Getting your money back and setting up for 32GB upgrade sometime down the road IMO, only if you need it. Also, try running 16Gigs 'only' (ie, w/o the old 8Gigs) and check if the system is fine. You can RMA it if it doesn't run fine on one identical set, or if it does, then you're out of luck w/ memory combo.
 
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I tried different combinations. The 8 gig is 2 yrs old and the 16 I bought in March. They worked fine together until a couple months ago. I'm looking at the motherboard.
 
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