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Hi I wanted to Upgrade My Ram From 8gb to 16 gb so i bought new ram with same speed and memory my old ram is Hyper X Fury 2400mhz 8gb and I bought Corsair Vengeance 2400mhz 8gb but when I Installed both rams at first I Got Black Screen and Just light in my keyboard but no visuals on monitor not even startup, then I removed my old ram and continued with new ram it booted up then i tried inserting old ram and remove the new one again i got black screen, then I removed the CMOS battery from the Motherboard and tested those rams by inserting them one by one it worked and I booted up my pc with both rams(16gb 2x8gb) but then I started to get your pc ran into a problem driver_irql_not_less_or_equal error again and again, my windows was not even loading properly and i get this error, now i can only use one ram. Can anyone tell me how to solve this issue and use both rams without crashes and I am Not getting windows updates, is it causing me problems for adding more ram or something else??
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I bought my Computer 2 years back My Specs Are: MB- MSI h110 pro-vh, Ram- Hyperx Fury 2400mhz 8gb, GPU- Zotac GTX 1060 6gb, PSU- 800w.
 
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With DDR4, mixing sets like this can end up with problems like this. I would first verify each module works correctly on its own and run a memtest. Be sure to make sure there is no power in the motherboard when swapping modules or you can damage stuff!

Once both modules pass, I would try different combinations until you can boot. Then I would immediately run memtest. If it passes, you got lucky. If it does not, start over again on different combinations.
With DDR4, mixing sets like this can end up with problems like this. I would first verify each module works correctly on its own and run a memtest. Be sure to make sure there is no power in the motherboard when swapping modules or you can damage stuff!

Once both modules pass, I would try different combinations until you can boot. Then I would immediately run memtest. If it passes, you got lucky. If it does not, start over again on different combinations.
 
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