Black Screen of Death, please help

[StraikoID]

I don’t know what to do, everything was working fine for 2 weeks after I installed another 8 gig piece of ram and a 1060 and now I get BSODs with ever launch. Even now it’s only getting worse and I cannot even launch windows. I’ve run a Norton full system scan and it found nothing. I happened to remove and place the ram sticks back and it fixed it for 3 launches, but then I crashed in a Firefox page.

I don’t know what to do

 

[DSzymborski]

Did you try it only removing the new stick?

 

[StraikoID]

I’ll try that now and just try to run with the old stick

- So it launched with no problems, I’ll continue to use the comps and see if I get a BSOD

 

[geofelt]

You likely have incompatible ram.
Ram is sold in kits for a reason.
A motherboard must manage all the ram using the same specs of voltage, cas and speed.
Ram from the same vendor and part number can be made up of differing manufacturing components over time.
Some motherboards, particularly AMD can be very sensitive to this.
That is why ram vendors will NOT support ram that is not bought in one kit.

What to do???

If you want 16gb, the best thing to do is to buy a compatible 2 x 8gb ram kit with the same specs as your current ram.
Then try to add in your old 8gb and see if it works. If it does, fine, you now have 24gb.
If it does not, then sell the old ram or keep it as a spare.

 

[StraikoID]

So I did two trials
- One with old ram and without the new ram - Havent crashed yet
- One with new ram and without the old one - Crashed 5 mins after launch

So. Is my mobo just incompatible with it?

 

[geofelt]

So I did two trials
- One with old ram and without the new ram - Havent crashed yet
- One with new ram and without the old one - Crashed 5 mins after launch

So. Is my mobo just incompatible with it?

Run memtest86+ on each stick individually.
You should be able to complete a full pass with NO errors.
If the new stick shows errors, it is defective and should be returned.

Realize though, that even if it tests good by itself, there is no guarantee that it will work well with a disparate companion stick.