Added 8 more Gbs of Corsair Vengeance 1600 mhz to my asus z87 sabertooth motherboard, now I have crashing

[Daved Savory]

Hey, looked through the forums and none of the fixes for the 2x 4gb 1600mhz ram i have found worked. I jumped the pins to restart the bios, took the cmos battery out. upped the voltage, but i cant find the settings such as cpu/nb that others have mentioned. I recently added 2 x 4gb of ram and now i am experiencing blue screen crashing with codes such as "memory management". Games have been crashing and sometimes the pc crashes when i just watch videos.

Specs

-Motherboard Asus z87 sabertooth
-Gpu Evga Gtx 780
-Ram 16 Gb Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz
-CPU i7 4770k
- Psu Corsair hx750i

 

[Kevern_11]

take that memory out, oprobably bad... do a memtest

 

[boju]

And try with just the new sticks vs old sticks. If testing (Furmark or memtest) come back clean with either set in then you're looking at just compatibility issues between both sets.

Bios update might help somewhat improving memory compatibility but not sure between two different sets of memory. Worth a try.

 

[Daved Savory]

I will try. Thanks!

 

[Daved Savory]

And try with just the new sticks vs old sticks. If testing (Furmark or memtest) come back clean with either set in then you're looking at just compatibility issues between both sets.

Bios update might help somewhat improving memory compatibility but not sure between two different sets of memory. Worth a try.

Took out the memory, and found they were slightly different.
They were both Cmz8gx3m2a1600c9
The old ones were v5.14
the new ones are v5.21

 

[boju]

Try the system with each set separately. If the PC runs fine with either set then its just a compatibility thing which an Bios update as i suggested might help. Could try have the sets in a different order too or mixed in different slots than before.

If the two sets in the end still don't cooperate at all then you're just going to have to return the memory and get quad memory set that are packaged together or try another set of the same ram.

I'd try updating your Bios first. Don't forget to return your Bios back to defaults before doing so. That reminds me, your cpu isn't overclocked is it? If it is, i'd try the memory again with no overclock and set your memory to XMP profile if you haven't tried this, XMP might get things communicating properly.

After bios update successful, clear the cmos.

 

[Tradesman1]

Try raising the DRAM voltage + 0.05 - if that doesn't do it, try upping the VCCIO voltage up about the same. Never a good idea to mix sets of DRAM, even of the same exact model - no guarantees 😉