I’m doing the memtest against a single stick in slot A2, could take a few hours to test both. Just going with straight XMP . Default occt test ran successfully for over 15 minutes. The issues with chrome and black screen was while running prime95 blend test.
To clarify I previously tried both sticks swapped positions from a2 to b2 but at the same time and the error is at the same address
LOL I did the same thing when I built my Ryzen last year. I figured if I could run prime95, browse the web, and watch netflix video for an hour it was likely ok. I didn't have the black screen problem though but when I did ACE Combat 7 it did me in and I had to go back to the table and readjust my ram timings. It just goes to show that testing different workloads is important to determining how stable the ram is which is why OC'ing your ram can be risky business.
The reason I stress B2 - sorry I meant to say A2 (it's been a long day) - is because it's the first slot in the primary channel and it likely to behave the best when testing as far as I am aware. Some boards don't like it when you don't populate the first channel before the second. So by populating the A2 the rationale is it will give you the most consistent results when testing different ram sticks individually. In any case determining if you have the same, or different behavior, with a single stick at a time will make it easier to decide what to do next once you know for sure what the behavior is in that slot.
We don't know for sure if memtest86 is saying if your ram is bad, it is possible but not certain, it may be incompatible, but for starters lets take it with a grain of salt that it's it somewhere to start. You do have another ram kit so technically you have a basis for trying to eliminate some possibilities to get closer to an answer. The next test may be to take your other set of ram and test one stick in the same slot as you did with the gskill. The outcome from that may point you in the direction you simply need a different ram kit... maybe it's bad maybe it's not but regardless you just need something that works.
If the other ram module (testing in the same slot) gives you the same results then maybe it's the CPU, or the board, or even the testing software. Again maybe not bad, but maybe just incompatible in some way, but then you have some options how to choose to proceed. Most people don't have enough hardware on hand to work though all the possibilities for certain.
My concern regarding the PSU is I had received some input many years ago that some dust can have conductive qualities. You certainly had a PSU packed with a lot and perhaps you're getting some bad power delivery because of it but I certainly don't know for sure.
It's your choice how to proceed. Just do what you can to solve your issue. I can't say I'm any expert at ram diagnosis.
LOL I did the same thing when I built my Ryzen last year. I figured if I could run prime95, browse the web, and watch netflix video for an hour it was likely ok. I didn't have the black screen problem though but when I did ACE Combat 7 it did me in and I had to go back to the table and readjust my ram timings. It just goes to show that testing different workloads is important to determining how stable the ram is which is why OC'ing your ram can be risky business.
The reason I stress B2 - sorry I meant to say A2 (it's been a long day) - is because it's the first slot in the primary channel and it likely to behave the best when testing as far as I am aware. Some boards don't like it when you don't populate the first channel before the second. So by populating the A2 the rationale is it will give you the most consistent results when testing different ram sticks individually. In any case determining if you have the same, or different behavior, with a single stick at a time will make it easier to decide what to do next once you know for sure what the behavior is in that slot.
We don't know for sure if memtest86 is saying if your ram is bad, it is possible but not certain, it may be incompatible, but for starters lets take it with a grain of salt that it's it somewhere to start. You do have another ram kit so technically you have a basis for trying to eliminate some possibilities to get closer to an answer. The next test may be to take your other set of ram and test one stick in the same slot as you did with the gskill. The outcome from that may point you in the direction you simply need a different ram kit... maybe it's bad maybe it's not but regardless you just need something that works.
If the other ram module (testing in the same slot) gives you the same results then maybe it's the CPU, or the board, or even the testing software. Again maybe not bad, but maybe just incompatible in some way, but then you have some options how to choose to proceed. Most people don't have enough hardware on hand to work though all the possibilities for certain.
My concern regarding the PSU is I had received some input many years ago that some dust can have conductive qualities. You certainly had a PSU packed with a lot and perhaps you're getting some bad power delivery because of it but I certainly don't know for sure.
It's your choice how to proceed. Just do what you can to solve your issue. I can't say I'm any expert at ram diagnosis.
I've got to pack it in for the night, later and good luck for now.
. It'll put such a strain on his rig.... oh man I don't even like using it myself.