New Ryzen 5 Build, Display Driver keeps crashing

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Specs:
Motherboard: MSI Gaming Pro Carbon B350
CPU: Ryzen 5 1600
GPU: ASUS R9390 DirectCU II (Part of my old build)
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (2x4GB) 3000MHz, running at 2666MHZ, wasn’t stable beyond that.
Storage: Samsung 850 Evo 500GB (OS Drive), MyDigitel BPX 120GB, WD Blue 500GB, only new drive is the BPX, the others I had before.
PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G2 750W (Part of my old build)
OS: Windows 10

Just put up my new Ryzen 5 build and can't get any game to work. Display driver keeps crashing and recovering. Error message varies, most common being "DirectX function "GetDeviceRemovedReason" failed with DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG..." At this point I don’t even try games to test, just use heaven benchmark or starcraft 2 to test as they load quickly, they black out a few times then eventually crash, event viewer simply says the display driver has crashed and recovered. I removed and reinstalled the drivers on numerous occasions, including using DDU to completely remove, was a concern that Windows 10 was clashing their drivers with the ones I downloaded, were a couple of times it appeared to be working but would still ultimately crash. Had a couple of rare crash and recovers otherwise as well, usually when web browsing, disabling hardware acceleration in chrome seemed to fix that (though that shouldn’t be necessary so it still implies a problem).

Also tried a GTX 750 Ti and have the same problem, so that ruled out the GPU or its drivers being the culprit. Currently using the 750 ti as I swapped with a friend. I noticed while running heaven, GPU-Z indicates at the periods when it temporarily blacks out that the video memory used suddenly dips from 620MB or so to about 100MB, then creeps back to about 500MB and at that point heaven would recover and continue, until of course it crashes again. Note the other error message also suggested the GPU should have at least 2GB of memory, don’t know therefore if it’s a video memory problem while noting that the GPU fine.
Furmark works, ran it for at least 20 minutes, which may not seem like a long time but I’d say it is when compared to 5 seconds with other applications. I notice however, that furmark doesn’t really tax the video memory. I’m really just hoping it’s a minor issue that I can fix in a second but I have no idea what it could be. I tried other stuff I believe would be irrelevant to mention. If it’s a hardware issue all I can think of is the motherboard, I’ve updated the bios btw.

Other Minor Issues, likely unrelated... System hangs sometimes on restart, I just avoid it for now by shutting down and powering back on rather than restarting. Also are a few times the keyboard has to be reinserted as it would not work when I boot, that incident rarely happens though.
 
Solution
With that information, I would suggest checking your memory with MemTest86.
http://www.memtest86.com/

Make sure you let it run for at least 7 passes,unless you get errors before then.

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New install of Win10 was the first thing I did, one of the irrelevant things I forgot to mention. In fact I reinstalled about 3 times now. The very first time was one the BPX M.2 Drive, was concerned that maybe drivers were working incorrectly with it so I went back to old faithful 850 EVO, clean install of course. The third time was after attempting to install 8.1 which kept failing, I've read that 7, 8 , or 8.1 wasn't recommended for ryzen or kaby lake so I assumed that was the reason the install was so difficult, ended up installing 10 again.
 

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Ok, memtest ran 7 passes with no errors but I wasn't convinced so I tried reseating the ram, didn't work. I then tried 1 stick at a time, now on the first stick I tried the profile at 2933 mhz, seemed to boot so I tried a game, this time it wasn't just the game, the entire system blacked right out, that was different. Tried the other stick, now that stick after trying 2933 gave me the 3 beeps as the system tried to boot several times, when it finally successfully booted I downed that to 2666 and it booted without problems. Tried a game and haven't crashed yet. A few minutes of gaming however isn't definitive, I was convinced other times I had solved the problem when I didn't so I'll continue testing, but as it stands it may infact be that stick. Will reply after some more testing but its progress, again thanks but I'll be back at least one more time.
 

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Yea just confirming that it was that stick. Put back in my r9 390 and tested some more and no problems. So ill operate on 4gb for now but ultimately just relieved to solve this problem. Gratitude.
 

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Thanks kevin i finally know now what the issue is i have the same dram like you and your solution helped out i ordered a Balistix Sport DRAM now
 

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Yea it looks like that particular ram kit isn't compatible with my motherboard at all, it was never listed among compatible kits on MSI's website. The fact that one stick works may just be luck. Careless on my part.