BSOD with new ram

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i have gigabyte GA-H55M-USB3 motherboard and 2x 2gb ocz platinum 10666 ram, so i wanted 8bg of ram so bought 2x 2gb ocz gold 10666 ram thinking they'd be the same but when i add the ram i get the BSOD on boot up and when i remove it its fine again. any ideas please
 
Try various combination (including one stick at a time) to see if you can isolate the problem. Also check you are supplying enough voltage to the RAM.
 
Had a play today and long story short 1 of the gold is faulty as i tried all 1 by 1, so i now have 6gb of ram in and the system says 6gb recognised but 3.96 available so im just gonna bite the bullet and was thinking of a single 8gb corsair vengence 1600mhz stick with the option of adding another 8 at a later date so my question is can i add 2x 8s or do i have to add 4x 4s. my board is a ga-h55m-usb3 and max ram is 16gb. thanks guys
 
i commented about that on a 8gb vs 16gb and mentioned how I got BSOD when I tried to upgrade like you.

Mobos are fussy, the ram have to be coupled exactly to the same made model revision number.

You are probably best off buying brand new 2x4gb ram sticks and sell these 2 pairs you have (as seperates)
 
If the timings of the ram are not the same. you need to put the slower ram in channel one so the faster ram slows down to the slower ram timings by default.

if you do it the other way the system will crash because your trying to over clock the slower ram.

if you get two of the same kits of ram, the timings can still be different.
run one kit at a time and set ram to XMP then make a note of the full timing list not just the 4 listed on the box. then when you know what kit is slower that the kit you put in slots 1 and 2.

ppl not doing thing like this is why its a common mistake to think you cant run unmatched sticking.
 
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