Question PC acting weird after installing new RAM ?

[Lmacan]

Yesterday I bought a pair of new ram sticks, I previously had 2x8 G skill 2400 and now I bought 2x16 Kingston 3200. I bought more to support my video editing and now when I have placed the new ram in, at first, I didnt put them good enough. I later fixed that, and kept getting bsods. Ran windows troubleshooting and it didnt find anything. Decided to pull the sticks out and clean out the ram slots and that seemed to fix the bsods. I figured that fixed it but no, whole pc acted crazy. Settings wouldnt load, audio was going from monitor speakers to my headphones back and fourth, couldnt edit because of that and the program seemed laggy. Didnt know what to do so I put my old sticks back and now everything is working as before. Any help would be helpful. Here are the specs of my pc:

MOTHERBOARD: B450 AORUS ELITE
CPU: AMD RYZEN 5 2600
GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1660TI
PSU: 650W BRONZE STANDARD

Thanks in advance for any help provided!

 

[helpstar]

Update the BIOS step by step, till it works
set the ram in dimm slot a2 and b2

 

[PiersPlowman]

Suggest putting the faster RAM in slots A2 and B2; slower in A1 and B1. Load the BIOS defaults and make sure that XMP / DOCP is NOT enabled.

Others will attest that running mixed RAM is a crap shoot and if the above does not work you may have to resign yourself to buying a new pair of high-capacity RAM sticks.

Note that your CPU supports UP TO 2933 RAM. Over four slots it will be considerably slower.

 

[Lmacan]

Suggest putting the faster RAM in slots A2 and B2; slower in A1 and B1. Load the BIOS defaults and make sure that XMP / DOCP is NOT enabled.

Others will attest that running mixed RAM is a crap shoot and if the above does not work you may have to resign yourself to buying a new pair of high-capacity RAM sticks.

Note that your CPU supports UP TO 2933 RAM. Over four slots it will be considerably slower.

I plan on just running the faster dual channel, and leave the old 2x8 out of the build. Is it the same process if I want to do it that way.

 

[PiersPlowman]

I plan on just running the faster dual channel, and leave the old 2x8 out of the build. Is it the same process if I want to do it that way.

Sure. Just populate the A2 and B2 RAM slots and you are good to go. Counting away from the CPU these should be slots two and four.

 

[thestryker]

If the DRAM you bought was 3200 JEDEC then that's what it will run at by default. Checking this would be a good first step just to make sure that there's not something wrong with the DRAM. You should be able to tell in the BIOS, but CPU-Z will read SPD values off of the sticks themselves. I wouldn't expect a Zen+ CPU to be stable at 3200 as the IMC wasn't very good.

 

[SkyNetRising]

I plan on just running the faster dual channel, and leave the old 2x8 out of the build. Is it the same process if I want to do it that way.

Can you show screenshots from CPU-Z - memory and spd sections?
(upload to imgur.com and post link)

 

[Lmacan]

Sure. Just populate the A2 and B2 RAM slots and you are good to go. Counting away from the CPU these should be slots two and four.

Yep thats what I did and then I got all the weird glitches

 

[PiersPlowman]

Yep thats what I did and then I got all the weird glitches

What speed is the new RAM running at? For diagnostic purposes, it should be no more than 2933 MHz with JEDEC (the universal Jack-of-all-trades memory profile; 2933 MHz is the maximum officially supported by Ryzen 2600).

If it fails at stock speeds, I'd send the memory back and buy something from your motherboard's approved RAM list.