[SOLVED] Errors in memtest86, faulty ram slot?

[breadian]

So I just assembled my pc for a few days, had some issues with ram and xmp, had some blue screens, but were kind of solved after I disabled xmp (btw xmp 1 not xmp 2), and enabled it later. Sometimes games will just randomly crash, but today I wanted to oc my ram, and I enabled xmp 2.0, I booted into windows 11, and I had a memory_management bluescreen, I tried a lot of stuff, I tried each of the ram sticks in A1 slot and both of them passed memtest86, but when I was testing them in B1 slot, I had like 3-4 thousand errors popping out in memtest86, all other ram slots are fine. Is this a possible faulty ram slot?

motherboard:Asus rog strix z690-a
ram: Crucial BL2K16G32C16U4W 32GB
CPU: 12700k

 

[kerberos_20]

you are supposed to use a2+b2 slots

 

[breadian]

you are supposed to use a2+b2 slots

I’m stupid, I didn’t read the motherboard menu, sorry😞

 

[kerberos_20]

it used to be that slots closer to CPU would be better (faster clock, lower latencies)..that was until DDR4 came out
with DDR4 A1+B1 is picky..it has lower overclock potencial/higher latencies then A2/B2
with DDR4 every mainboard recommends A2+B2 when using two ram modules as those sticks are tested there

 

[breadian]

you are supposed to use a2+b2 slots

But I still have a question, A1 did work with only 1 stick, but B1 didn’t, so does that mean it’s still broken?

 

[kerberos_20]

But I still have a question, A1 did work with only 1 stick, but B1 didn’t, so does that mean it’s still broken?

if ram works there without XMP then no, slot is not broken, its just not compatible with XMP profile settings for that stick

 

[breadian]

if ram works there without XMP then no, slot is not broken, its just not compatible with XMP profile settings for that stick

It worked with no xmp… so if I were to get 2 more stick of ram, I can only run them at 2666mhz with no xmp enabled?