Memory problema, timing issue?

Natan_3

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In my build I have 2 ddr3 4GB RAM that have this strange error that happens and fix itself alone with no apparently reason.
A few years ago I bought my second stick of RAM from the same place I bought the one in my build, they have the same serial number and everything, they should be Identical, but they aren't( the most recent oneis a little bit thinner, but I don't think that matter).
Although both sticks and all my Mobo RAM slots are working perfectly fine, from time to time for no reason when when I put my windows on sleep mode, it won't comeback unless I clear CMOS, and after that 4GB of RAM get marked as hardware reserved.
This thing already happened around 5 times since I bought my new ram 2 years ago, and this error usually gets fixed when I tweak a some RAM config on the Mobo or Windows (like changing boot options on msconfig, setting no paging file on advanced system settings, changing some stuff on the regedit or changing my mobo to channel interleaving mode). All the times this issue happened changing one of these configuration made everything comeback to normal, although I don't know why ( sometimes even tweaking the setting wouldn't work, but reverting it afterwards would fix the issue, which is really strange).
I'm using AMD so there's no integrated video card, and again, all sticks and slots are working fine.
I'm it's a timing problem since both sticks aren't exactly the same, and on the bios configuration some timing settings aren't equal for both sticks, but I don't know if I should do anything about that
Thanks and sorry for the long post, it's a kinda strange error for me.
 
Memory is guaranteed in the form sold. Buying single modules and combining them carry no guarantee to be compatible together.

If you prefer doing that then you assume responsibility for doing your own compatibility testing. As the old memory has never been tested with the new memory, you are the first to test how it works.
 

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So, even though my sticks had already worked together before, this issue that I'm having show compatibility problem?
For example, the time I made this post only 4 GB of ram were being used, so I turn off the PC and went to sleep.
This morning before turning the PC on I switched the the slots the both RAM were on, and my PC wouldn't boot, so I set everything the way it was before and turned on the PC, it boot normally and I have my 8GB back to normal.
All I want is to stop having this problem, if it isn't possible I'd like to now why