Hi Guys,
My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-H87-D3H (https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-H87-D3H-rev-1x#ov), and I was using 8GB of G Skill Ares RAM (https://www.gskill.com/en/product/f3-1600c9d-8gao), and everything was working perfectly, but decided I wanted to upgrade to 16GB, so bought some used Corsair Vengeance RAM (http://www.corsair.com/en-us/vengeancer-16gb-dual-channel-ddr3-memory-kit-cmz16gx3m2a1600c9g)
I installed it, and it seemed to be fine, PC booted up, then got a "desktop window manager has stopped responding" error message, and while I was looking up what that meant I got a BSOD. I then tried to restart my computer, and it wouldn't get past the BIOS screen, and was unresponsive there. I then made sure the new RAM was installed correctly, and that resulted in the PC not booting at all (the lights would come on but nothing would show up on screen).
I've now reinstalled my original RAM, and it seems to be working fine again, but my question is was it faulty RAM causing a crash, or was it not installed correctly, or do I have to change some settings to get it to work?
Any advice is much appreciated, I really am a novice when it comes to these sorts of things
My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-H87-D3H (https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-H87-D3H-rev-1x#ov), and I was using 8GB of G Skill Ares RAM (https://www.gskill.com/en/product/f3-1600c9d-8gao), and everything was working perfectly, but decided I wanted to upgrade to 16GB, so bought some used Corsair Vengeance RAM (http://www.corsair.com/en-us/vengeancer-16gb-dual-channel-ddr3-memory-kit-cmz16gx3m2a1600c9g)
I installed it, and it seemed to be fine, PC booted up, then got a "desktop window manager has stopped responding" error message, and while I was looking up what that meant I got a BSOD. I then tried to restart my computer, and it wouldn't get past the BIOS screen, and was unresponsive there. I then made sure the new RAM was installed correctly, and that resulted in the PC not booting at all (the lights would come on but nothing would show up on screen).
I've now reinstalled my original RAM, and it seems to be working fine again, but my question is was it faulty RAM causing a crash, or was it not installed correctly, or do I have to change some settings to get it to work?
Any advice is much appreciated, I really am a novice when it comes to these sorts of things