Question Problems with RAM, trying to understand what is happening ?

Jan 5, 2024
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Hello, I have had problems with my RAM for a long time and I would like to find an answer to 2 questions

my PC is a B450m Steel Legend, Ryzen 7 2700, 2x8gb Asgard Loki 3200mhz (the same problems happen in stock or xmp for that reason I'm testing at 3200mhz 1.35v)


problems I have, BSOD, tabs crashing, games closing, apps closing, (W7 and W10)

explanation 1, I did a lot of tests on memtest86 I had problems in Test 8 [Random number sequence], a few months ago I did a few tests and had 1 or 2 errors in test 8, in the last few days I did several tests on the same days that I had problems using Windows , in one test I did 25 passes in test 8 and had errors in 13 of them, then I turned off the PC and did 30 again in test 8 with 0 errors, on other days I did all these other tests without any errors, just test 8, 17pass, 17pass, 6pass, 41pass, and finally I passed 10 in all tests and no errors

Question 1, how is it possible to fail 13 passes out of 25 and nothing happens in the others? If the RAM is bad and giving problems for several days in a row on Windows, shouldn't the error frequency in test 8 be higher?


explanation 2 (more out of curiosity as it doesn't make sense what happened) a long time ago I had the problems more constantly, I reinstalled the video drivers every few days and that helped to improve, I stopped messing with the drivers and for a while 3 months I only had 1 or 2 errors per month, after that I needed to install an audio driver and the problem returned more constantly, it was increasingly clear that it was something related to Windows as I had not found any error with memtest86, aida64 and prime95

Question 2, if the problem is in memory as we saw in explanation 1, why would changing the drivers influence the problem so much if the problem is in memory? it doesn't make sense

here are the tests that I had errors in, the first two are the old ones, the last one is from the last few days (they are all "bits in error 63, what is that)

View: https://imgur.com/7w3ll5z


thanks for trying to help me
 
Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

What BIOS version are you on? As for your rams, do they exhibit the same issue when on another known working platform?

problems I have, BSOD, tabs crashing, games closing, apps closing, (W7 and W10)
Can you elaborate on the OSes and how you have them installed? Dual boot?