- Sep 9, 2014
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Hi
I recently tried to go from 16gb to 32gb DDR3
I had 4x4GB crucial ballistix and it worked great
I tried 4x 8gb Komputerbay and it didn't work out, lots of errors and crashes, couldn't pass memtest86
I then got a cheap stick of 8gb (incase the komputerbay stuff was junk) and had the same issues
Thinking it was just "cheap RAM" I got myself 2x 8GB Kingston Hyper X
Same problems - random boot issues and a failure on memtest86 stage 13 - last time this lead to a corrupted Windows partition so I'm reluctant to pass it off as "just test 13, don't worry it'll be ok"
CPU is 4770
Mobo Gigabyte Z87-HD3
Tried resetting CMOS
Tried changing RAM timings
What is wrong, why is my system rejecting every 8GB stick I throw at it?
(Also I'm not mixing and matching sticks, one stick is enough to cause problems, although the more sticks I use, the more quickly problems occur)
I recently tried to go from 16gb to 32gb DDR3
I had 4x4GB crucial ballistix and it worked great
I tried 4x 8gb Komputerbay and it didn't work out, lots of errors and crashes, couldn't pass memtest86
I then got a cheap stick of 8gb (incase the komputerbay stuff was junk) and had the same issues
Thinking it was just "cheap RAM" I got myself 2x 8GB Kingston Hyper X
Same problems - random boot issues and a failure on memtest86 stage 13 - last time this lead to a corrupted Windows partition so I'm reluctant to pass it off as "just test 13, don't worry it'll be ok"
CPU is 4770
Mobo Gigabyte Z87-HD3
Tried resetting CMOS
Tried changing RAM timings
What is wrong, why is my system rejecting every 8GB stick I throw at it?
(Also I'm not mixing and matching sticks, one stick is enough to cause problems, although the more sticks I use, the more quickly problems occur)
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