So I recently tried overclocking my ram and cpu using a automatic overclock feature on my motherboard's bios called performance upgrade. I set it to 40% but the system wouldn't boot and it recovered back into bios. There is another automatic overclock feature on my board that just does the cpu, which I was using previously and had no issues with so I went back to that and turned off the other one. However I had a number of system stability issue and crashes after this. I turned off all overclocking, but I still crashed in games and had a few memory management BSOD. So I tried running memtest and got a large number of errors. I then tried testing each stick individually and only one gave back errors, stick 4.
I startsd testing all the different combinations and channels for my ram (I also updated my bios at the start of this). And all the results pointed back to stick 4 being the issue. I pulled it and put sticks 1 and 2 in so I could boot (it wouldn't post with 3 sticks in, I assume because my motherboard can't run a single channel while dual channel is in use?). However the system wouldn't post, even though it was with those two sticks earlier. It was stuck in a power cycle. I then tried other combinations to get it to post and here is what I have:
1and 2 together won't post in any channel.
1 and 3 post
1 and 4 post
2 and 3 post
2 and 4 post
3 and 4 post
1, 2, 3, and 4 won't post together anymore
Stick 4 remains to be the bad sick in memtest. However am I going to have to buy 2 replacement sticks now, as I have to replace 4, but also 1 or 2 as they won't post if they're together?
Any ideas as to why or how this started happening? At first I thought it maybe the bios update, but I tested 1 and 2 after that and it still posted then.
Pc:
Core i5 6600k
Gigabyte Z170 HD3 DDR3
Mushkin Silverline DDR3 1333 4x4gb
Asus Dual GTX 1060 6gb
Samsung 850 EVO 500gb
Thermaltake smart pro rgb 650w
I startsd testing all the different combinations and channels for my ram (I also updated my bios at the start of this). And all the results pointed back to stick 4 being the issue. I pulled it and put sticks 1 and 2 in so I could boot (it wouldn't post with 3 sticks in, I assume because my motherboard can't run a single channel while dual channel is in use?). However the system wouldn't post, even though it was with those two sticks earlier. It was stuck in a power cycle. I then tried other combinations to get it to post and here is what I have:
1and 2 together won't post in any channel.
1 and 3 post
1 and 4 post
2 and 3 post
2 and 4 post
3 and 4 post
1, 2, 3, and 4 won't post together anymore
Stick 4 remains to be the bad sick in memtest. However am I going to have to buy 2 replacement sticks now, as I have to replace 4, but also 1 or 2 as they won't post if they're together?
Any ideas as to why or how this started happening? At first I thought it maybe the bios update, but I tested 1 and 2 after that and it still posted then.
Pc:
Core i5 6600k
Gigabyte Z170 HD3 DDR3
Mushkin Silverline DDR3 1333 4x4gb
Asus Dual GTX 1060 6gb
Samsung 850 EVO 500gb
Thermaltake smart pro rgb 650w
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